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# "People who spend an excessive amount of time playing games are powerless to stop themselves"
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/people-who-spend-excessive-amount-time-playing-games-are-powerless-stop-themselves/
- Published: 2012-12-03T17:37:39.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:49:05.000Z
- Description: -Olivia Metcalf, researcher at the Australian National University, whose PHD research demonstrated that some gamers literally cannot stop thinking about games, even if they try to.
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

\-Olivia Metcalf, researcher at the Australian National University, whose PHD research [demonstrated that some gamers literally cannot stop thinking about games](http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-video-gaming-addiction-thoughts.html?ref=killscreen.com), even if they try to.