Game on? Video-game ownership may interfere with young boys’ academic functioning

Game on? Video-game ownership may interfere with young boys’ academic functioning
( Association for Psychological Science ) According to new findings, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children. Boys who received a video-game system immediately had significantly lower reading and writing scores after four months than boys receiving a video-game system at the end of the experiment. Further analysis revealed that the time spent playing video …

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