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videogame addiction  

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  • A growing number of reports in the popular press have examined excessive use of video games among children and adolescents (“joystick junkies”). Video games rely on multiple reinforcements in that different features may be differently rewarding to different people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Electronic Games, Addiction to]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-P39M7BXF-H

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