If it’s on the internet it must be true
A leading psychologist has warned that young men are facing a crisis of masculinity due to excessive use of video games and pornography.
Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.
In an interview on the BBC World Service’s Weekend programme, Zimbardo spoke about the results of his study, an in-depth look into the lives of 20,000 young men and their relationships with video games and pornography.
He said: “Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolation – they are alone in their room.”
“Now, with freely available pornography, which is unique in history, they are combining playing video games, and as a break, watching on average, two hours of pornography a week.”
Zimbardo says there is a “crisis” amongst young men, a high number of whom are experiencing a “new form of addiction” to excessive use of pornography and video games.
Oh Christ, what a joke… Perhaps someone should remind the good Dr. Zambardo that up to 96% of these crappy psychology studies aren’t reproducible. There are some excellent research psychologist’s out there, but too many have no idea how statistics actually work…
Timely response to the Zombardo scam on a blog I frequent (infrequently):
http://mindhacks.com/2015/05/10/philip-zimbardo-has-a-theory/
Video at the end is a fantastic debate…