Playing video games has become one of the most prevalent pastimes for kids as well as adults. Therefore I thought it would be neat to explore some of the ways in which video games can affect our psychology. In this blog post I want to relate an interesting factoid as explained by Dr. James Garbarino (a child psychologist) in his book Lost Boys:

"Until World War II, the military trained soldiers to shoot at bull’s-eye targets. Soldiers could get very good at this, but when a human being was...