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Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.

New Mexico
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    Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 30 Oct 2019
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    Video games don't cause real-world aggression. We've looked hard, and they just don't. Find a new moral panic if you must; but this one is over.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1189473672471498752 …

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    Rolf Degen @DegenRolf
    Meta-analyses: "After four decades of research, it is likely time to admit that we have not amassed an evidence base that justifies warning the public about harmful effects of violent video games." http://www.christopherjferguson.com/Ferguson-YAW%20Paper.pdf … pic.twitter.com/WXeICJchDV
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      2. Ruminative Orangutan‏ @Ruminorang 30 Oct 2019
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        False. I threw a controller at my sisters’ head when she beat me at Super Nintendo. Direct correlation

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      3. Ruminative Orangutan‏ @Ruminorang 30 Oct 2019
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        Causation heavily implied

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      2. Dillon Freed‏ @dillonfreed 30 Oct 2019
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        Interested to see if VR changes that. Was talking to a friend who played GTA5 and went outside and had thoughts that people weren't "real." He is perfectly sane he just pointed out how eerie it was driving around LA. I could easily see someone thinking they are in the game and...

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      3. Dillon Freed‏ @dillonfreed 30 Oct 2019
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        using the game as an excuse to kill. I don't disagree with the findings, but possible edge cases are interesting to consider. I've always thought of such entertainment as being benign to the general population but also that a very tiny subset have an "allergy" to it.

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      2. name‏ @motorbikemike13 30 Oct 2019
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        In 52 years I’ve seen so many things blamed for violence, *deviant* sexual behavior & suicide, comic books sci-fi & horror, dungeons & dragons, heavy metal & punk music movies horror & especially porn, atheism, marijuana even books by @StephenKing there’s always a new moral panic

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      3. Pat‏ @patrick5087 31 Oct 2019
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        Hey to keep the theme, can we add Cell phone use in there? Would really like to see that looked into, I do know it's an addiction. (Well mental one)

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      1. Jason Olympics‏ @JasonOlympics 30 Oct 2019
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        Real world aggression causes video games

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      1. Tony Sangimino‏ @Sangi81kg 31 Oct 2019
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        It’s not a simple test to conclude. If a kids first exposure to killing hookers for example is GTA, that doesn’t mean they will kill hookers. And if you ask the kid and test them, he will hide it away. But now it’s in there and whatever happens in the future we can’t parse out.

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      2. l__ds‏ @l__ds 30 Oct 2019
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        Do you/@DegenRolf have any thoughts on this recent commentary?https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691619850104 …

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        pic.twitter.com/wvZ6CSzOo8

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