Douglas A. Gentile, PhD, Associate Professor, Developmental Psychology; Director, Media Research Lab, Iowa State
University; Award Recipient, Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Media Psychology and American Psychological
Association; Author, “Video games affect the brain - for better and worse” (2010, Cerebrum: Emerging Ideas in Brain
Science); Co-Author, Violent Video Games E#ects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research and Public Policy (2007)