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BBC Science Focus Magazine
When we see science in the news, itâs usually at the endpoint â the analyses have been run, the paper published, the lab tidied up in preparation for the next experiment. But what happens before a study hits the headlines?
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Iâm a psychologist, and at the moment Iâm running a project on the relationship between gambling problems, mental wellbeing, and how we spend money in video games through mechanisms called loot boxes. But this isnât about the results of that research. Just as important as knowing what a study has found out is understanding the journey that scientists go through to get to that point.
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Players look like they’re glued to their screens, fully absorbed and seemingly unaware of what’s going on around them. If you don’t have lived experience of the rich and varied social environments that video games can afford, it’s easy to see them as an unwholesome activity – unnatural, even – that can’t be good for us.
In the early 1980s, this distrust went so far as to be a subject of debate in the UK House of Commons.