Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Andrew Przybylski is an experimental psychologist based at the Oxford Internet Institute. Since 2005 his research has focused on applying motivational theory to understand the universal aspects of video games and social media that draw people in, the role of game structure and content on human aggression, and the factors that lead to successful versus unsuccessful self-regulation of gaming contexts and social media use.
Social media is nothing like drugs, despite all the horror stories
Jun 21, 2017 15:50 pm UTC| Technology Insights & Views
Letting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes all at once, or so were told. If you have been following recent press reports about the effects of social media on young people, you...
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