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Playing the Blame Game: Video Games Pros and Cons

Posted on September 26, 2008

Playing the Blame Game-- Video games stand accused of causing obesity, violence, and lousy grades. But new research paints a surprisingly complicated and positive picture, reports Greater Good Magazine's Jeremy Adam Smith.Cheryl Olson had seen her teenage son play video games. But like many parents, she didn't know much about them.Then in 2004 the U.S. Department of Justice asked Olson and her husband, Lawrence Kutner, to run a federally funded study of how video games affect adolescents.Olson and Kutner are the co-founders and directors of the Harvard Medical School's Center for Mental Health...

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