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A new podcast from BSU's Department of Psychology. In each episode, we'll hear from members of the department about why they love psychology, what drew them to the discipline, and what they see are the big issues at the moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Pete Etchells was 13, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify "game addiction" as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea. In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games via scientific study....