STS Speaker Series: “A Dimensional Approach to Understanding Video Game Effects”

by

Dr. Douglas Gentile

• Co-organizers: The Communications and New Media (CNM) Programme

About the Speaker

Dr. Douglas Gentile is a developmental psychologist, and assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University.  He heads the university’s Media Research Lab, where he studies the media's impact on children and adults. He is also Director of Research for the National Institute on Media and the Family, and speaks regularly to community, education, health care, and parent groups about issues such as the connection between media and brain development, the effects of television and video game violence, and the psychology of advertising. He is editor of the recent book The Effects of Violent Video Games on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. His work has also been reported in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Straits Times, as well as numerous other newspapers and television stations.