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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #643 - Michael Kasumovic - Are Violent Video Games Actually That Harmful?
Description: Michael Kasumovic is a professor of evolutionary biology at University of New South Wales, a researcher and an author.The influence of violent video games on human psychology has been contested for years. Does virtual violence translate to real world harm? Should we be worried about our friends and kids who play them? And just what makes these games so compelling?Expect to learn the evolutionary theory of why winners tend to win more and losers tend to lose more, whether video games skills translate to the real world, why status-seeking people are more interested...