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Psychological Science, Treatment, and Research in the Digital Age
In the digital age, when we have something to say we tweet, text, email, post, and blog our hearts out. Researchers have taken note and are recognizing that phone and web-based technology has the potential
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Can You Be Addicted to Social Media?
Everyday Health: These days, you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who isn’t caught up in a world of status updates, re-tweets, followers and check-ins. Social media has certainly made it easier for people to connect
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Study: Moody Toddlers Could End Up as Compulsive Gamblers
Education Week: Is your 3-year-old overly cranky, impulsive and restless? If the answer is yes, you could be raising a future gambler. So says a new study published recently in the journal Psychological Science that
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Moody toddlers at risk for gambling issues, study bets
CTV: Parents who dismiss a toddler’s foot-stomping and tantrum-throwing as ordinary growing pains may want to revisit that idea. Defiant, impulsive behaviour in preschool could hint that a child is at risk of developing a
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'Moody' Toddlers More Likely to Become Problem Gamblers, Study Suggests
LiveScience: Restless, moody toddlers are more likely than other tots to grow up to become problem gamblers, suggests a new study. Retracing the lives of more than 900 New Zealanders, researchers found that 3-year-olds with
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Hope for children addicted to gaming
The Sydney Morning Herald: Children addicted to video games are more likely to suffer depression, anxiety and social phobias as a result of their pathological gaming, and may need professional help to recover, a visiting
