What it doesn't include is a paragraph about new research on videogames because it got chopped to make room in the newspaper's print layout. So for those of you following along, here it is:
Content matters for video games too, experts say. Research presented at a recent meeting of the American Psychological Association showed a connection between violent games and hostility in children, but it also highlighted a link between good behavior and games that rely on cooperation. A new book, "Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do," uses data from a five-year study to parse the differences further. The authors, Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson, said only some subsets of players — like girls who play violent games every day, for example — were more likely to bully.
Grand Theft Childhood includes several other provocative results too. I suspect I'll be writing more about that book in the future.
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