The Independent reports:
Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo (who led the team of researchers who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment) has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.
Zimbardo says (in this TED talk) there is a "crisis" amongst young men, a high number of whom are experiencing a "new form of addiction" to excessive use of pornography and video games. Citing the research he and his team conducted for the book, he says: "It begins to change brain function. It begins to change the reward centre of the brain, and produces a kind of excitement and addiction."
An article from Psychology Today, however, argues that there are no demonstrable scientific links between porn consumption and the disputed phenomenon called 'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction.'
Could this problem be manifesting itself as the rise of the Hikikomori?
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:54AM
They will do like the oldish swedes: buy small dogs as company...
Then, on the streets walking the dog: if a dog does not like some other dog, the owners avoid each other as plague, even if they have been neighbours for 10 years...
Or like the young swedish women: she is in age to get children, but has no such relationship, so she buys little dog as comfort... No sane man takes a woman where he has to go up 6 in the morning to walk the dog...
Absolutely bizarre...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax