Smashademia: Recent Episodes
Smashademics
Smashademia goes into the weeds of video game research and tries to understand what research is being done and how we can learn from it. Every episode will feature a new topic for discussion and will have all the referenced research in the description. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smashademia/support
The hosts discuss some of the history behind video game addiction and the more formalized Internet Gaming Disorder, as well as some of the problems with such diagnoses.
Papers Cited:
A clinical evaluation of the DSM-5 criteria for Internet Gaming Disorder and a pilot study on their applicability to further Internet-related disorders - Muller et al 2019
The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale - Lemmens et al 2015
Debate in ANZJP
1) Internet gaming disorder should qualify as a mental disorder - King et al 2018
2) Internet gaming disorder does not qualify as a mental disorder - Duller and Starcevic 2018
For more information, follow us on Twitter @Smashademics or follow any of the hosts
Charlie - @LadyCPeachyKeen
Louie - @PhD_Louie
Kyle - @DrPiggyPhD
Prem - @PremThottumkara
Special thanks to Schkrimps for the music. Check him out on his SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/d-j-wody
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smashademia/support
In our first episode with our 4th host, Charlie Morrow, we discuss some of the sports psychology of gaming. Topics vary from goal setting to out of game preparation.
Papers will be added at a later date.
For more information, follow us on Twitter @Smashademics or follow any of the hosts
Charlie - @LadyCPeachyKeen
Louie - @PhD_Louie
Kyle - @DrPiggyPhD
Prem - @PremThottumkara
Special thanks to Schkrimps for the music. Check him out on his SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/d-j-wody
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smashademia/support
In the first episode of Smashademia, Louie, Kyle and Prem discuss how researchers view video games, and how modern gamers are changing those perceptions by getting involved in research.
Papers discussed or researched in this episode:
1) Do Video Games Promote Positive Youth Development? - Adachi and Willoughby 2012
2) The development of attention skills in action video game players - Dye, Green, and Bavelier 2010
3) Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic Investigation - Powers et al 2013
4) Video game violence: A review of the empirical literature - Dill and Dill 1998
For more information, follow us on Twitter @Smashademics or follow any of the hosts
Louie - @PhD_Louie
Kyle - @DrPiggyPhD
Prem - @PremThottumkara
Special thanks to Schkrimps for the music. Check him out on his SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/d-j-wody
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smashademia/support