Hipsters, those coffee drinking, Macbook using, living subculture icons have been the inspiration for Illustrator Matt Lassen to adapt some famous cartoon characters: Check more here, but this is my favorite:
I’ve noticed that this relevant report isn’t getting much attention. You can download the white paper here. The video and presentation give a summary:
Quite often when computer games and kids get publicity the news is rather negative. This new study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University has a different ring to it. The researchers assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children’s mental health and… Read More A bit of a different tune: Time spent playing video games may have positive effects on young children
Next week we’re having the annual week against bullying in our country, and while in many countries the amount of children being bullied is getting smaller, it’s still an important problem. A new review of research out today outlines roles and recommendations for peers, parents, schools and new media platforms to stop bullying. From the press… Read More New review study on how to fight bullying
The idea that teenagers have an important influence on our language – with new words popping up every now and then – is not wrong as such, but youngsters are not solely causing language change. A new study by Mary Kohn et al shows that language changes occur throughout a lifetime and not just during the teenage years.… Read More No, it’s not swag or yolo after all: teenagers’ role in language change is overstated
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief with an interesting study on adolescents: Although worrying is a normal response to an anticipated threat, excessive worry can be problematic. A new article in the British Journal of Health Psychology analyzes the development of worry throughout childhood. The authors used data from The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children… Read More Worrying times for adolescents
Maybe we need to introduce a ‘No shit, Sherlock’-price for research, but that would be wrong. Checking assumptions that everybody feels that they are right is often needed (cfr learning styles as an example). This new Dutch 5-year-long longitudinal study has found that adolescents’ mood swings decline gradually as they get older what sounds logical and… Read More Maybe not surprising, but reassuring: most teen mood swings decline with age
A new study scores big on the ‘no shit, Sherlock’-factor, but still is quite interesting: The older the clinician, the more likely they are to think playing video games leads to violent behavior. Also female clinicians tended to be more negative. The study published in Computers and Human analyzes the opinions of 109 clinicians asking them whether video games… Read More You are too old for this game! (study on thinking about effect video games)
Computer games have been around for a couple of decades now (yes, you’re getting old) and gaming has become a massive industry. What are kids’ gaming habits like in the UK today? And how do boys’ and girls’ gaming preferences and attitudes differ? These questions were posited by a recent gaming project by Nickelodeon UK.… Read More Most kids in the UK today are gamers (VIMN-study)