Computers in Human Behavior Available online 17 November 2017 Tobias Greitemeyer, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.11.022 Highlights • Violent video game exposure is related to aggressive behavior in the player. • This effect in turn spreads across the player’s social network. • Non-players are more aggressive if they are connected to players. Abstract Violent video game exposure has been […]
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PeerJ. 2017; 5: e3697. Published online 2017 Sep 13. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3697 PMCID: PMC5600723 Laia Oliva,1 Tània Aranda,1 Giada Caviola,1 Anna Fernández-Bernal,1 Marià Alemany,1,2,3 José Antonio Fernández-López,1,2,3 and Xavier Remesar1,2,3 Academic Editor: Jara Pérez-Jiménez Abstract Background Food selection and ingestion both in humans and rodents, often is a critical factor in determining excess energy intake and […]
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[I got] a haircut. And after the job was done, I noticed to my delight that my balding spot is completely gone. I was prematurely going bald for 5 years by now, currently I’m 28 years old. Ever since this current streak, which is the longest I’ve taken, my balding spot just vanished out of […]
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On Sunday I will have gone 60 days without porn, and 18 days without masturbating and I haven’t felt this good in a long time. I just wanted to tell my story about quitting porn, what it has done to me and how far I’ve come now. I am not sure when it started, but […]
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Can Jiao1†, Ting Wang1†, Xiaozhe Peng1 and Fang Cui1,2* 1College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China 2Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is associated with deficits in social communication and avoidance of social contact. It has been hypothesized that people with IAD […]
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“Right now, many young guys believe their porn use has no consequences, and they are often distressed to find that when they connect with partners they aren’t aroused. They are dependent upon porn for arousal. Some are justifiably furious when they realize that their sexual health has been put at risk in order to increase […]
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Nineteen years ago, I first began wending down the tortuous spiral of self-harm of PMO, a willing prisoner to the shackles of addiction. It was from within this cage that I lost my virginity, went through three long-term relationships, matured sexually, and developed my adult personality. I have never known myself as an adult in […]
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Eur J Public Health. 2017 Oct 25. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckx141. Yang T1, Yu L1, Oliffe JL2, Jiang S1, Si Q3. Abstract Background: Many studies have reported factors associated with internet addiction (IA) but little attention has been paid to contextual influences. The present study examined the association between regional contextual determinants of IA among college students […]
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Thank you all, boys and girls, for continuous help and words of wisdom. Little did I know how much reading those posts, watching Noach B.E. Church, following Gabe Deem and learning from Gary Willson will help me to mature and break the habits that have been confining me for so long. I am going to […]
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Front Psychiatry. 2017 Sep 29;8:185. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00185. eCollection 2017. Weinstein AM1. Abstract There are a growing number of studies on structural and functional brain mechanisms underlying Internet gaming disorder (IGD). Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging studies showed that IGD adolescents and adults had reduced gray matter volume in regions associated with attention motor coordination executive […]
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