Episode 7: Gaming and Social Skills - Oxymoron? Or The Perfect Match?

Have you ever wondered if the video games we play are actually hurting our  ability to make friends? Or communicate with other people? Or form  relationships? In today's episode, we'll talk about the good, bad, and  research surrounding what video games can do to our personalities and  abilities to develop social skills.

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Here are the links to today's sources:

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/02/video-game

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01731/full

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905509/

https://levelskip.com/community/The-Many-Social-Benefits-of-Playing-Video-Games

https://www.downtownpublications.com/single-post/2019/07/23/video-gaming-what-studies-say-of-too-much-play-time