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The term "addiction"
Addiction can include:
- Addiction as a moral transgression, like excessive drinking or drug use.
- Addiction as a scientific disease, which characterize alcoholism and drug addiction as biological.
- Colloquial violation, which applies the term to almost any fixation.
The idea that someone can be addicted to a behavior, as opposed to a substance, remains debatable.
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A new framework for Addiction
Experts refer to addiction as a complex behavioral disorder that joins biology, psychology, social environment and culture.
Addiction is now defined as a compulsive engagement in a rewarding experience despite severe consequences.
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Video games are a social problem
- 2+ billion people worldwide play video games
- A typical gamer in the US spends 12 hours playing each week.
- 60% of gamers neglect sleep to keep playing.
- 40% of gamers have missed a meal.
- In 2018, people worldwide spent a collective nine billion hours watching o...
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Why video games feel so addictive
- Video games are alternate realities. We experience great satisfaction from our gaming achievements. When compared, real-life seems so much harder and less gratifying.
- Video games sometimes provide the guise of genuine social connection. In reality, it can push so...
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A new disorder
The World Health Organization officially added a new disorder to the section on substance use and addictive behaviors : **“gaming disorder”
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A gaming disorder is defined as an ...
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Arguments against gaming addiction
- Excessive gameplay is a symptom of a larger problem, like anxiety or depression.
- The fear of possible addiction arrises from moral panic about new technologies, not scientific research or clinical data.
- Making excessive gaming a disorder can harm the gaming industry by stigma...
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Video games are designed to be addictive
With the help of hired scientists, game developers have employed many psychological techniques to make their products as unquittable as possible.
- First, players are enticed with easy and pred...
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