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  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Douglas A. Gentile is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has conducted extensive research in social sciences and psychology. Their work integrates areas such as sociology and political science, education, clinical psychology, social psychology, and literary theory.

Their research focuses on the impact of technology on adolescents, child development and digital technology, bullying, victimization and aggression, digital games and media, media influence and health, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, as well as social media and politics.

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Social Media and Politics

Douglas A. Gentile has frequently published in a variety of venues, including:

  • Technology Mind and Behavior
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • The Journal of Social Psychology

Their recent published papers include:

  • Comparing cyberbullying prevalence and process before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, The Journal of Social Psychology
  • Tantrums, toddlers and technology: Temperament, media emotion regulation, and problematic media use in early childhood, 2021, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Addressing the digital skills gap for future education, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Pathological video game symptoms from adolescence to emerging adulthood: A 6-year longitudinal study of trajectories, predictors, and outcomes, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors and Preventive Approaches, 2020, Current Addiction Reports

Notable frequent coauthors working alongside Douglas A. Gentile have included:

  • El-Lim Kim
  • Laura Stockdale
  • Sarah M. Coyne
  • Patrick K. Bender
  • Brad J. Bushman

Douglas A. Gentile has also contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, publishing the work Learning from Video Games (and Everything Else) in 2021.

They have been recognized for their contributions by being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study

    Douglas A. Gentile;Hyekyung Choo;Albert Liau;Timothy Sim

  • Pathological Video-Game Use Among Youth Ages 8 to 18 A National Study

    Douglas Gentile

  • The effects of violent video game habits on adolescent hostility, aggressive behaviors, and school performance

    Douglas A Gentile;Paul J Lynch;Jennifer Ruh Linder;David A Walsh

  • The Effects of Prosocial Video Games on Prosocial Behaviors: International Evidence From Correlational, Longitudinal, and Experimental Studies:

    Douglas A. Gentile;Craig A. Anderson;Shintaro Yukawa;Nobuko Ihori

  • Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy

    Craig A. Anderson;Douglas A. Gentile;Katherine E. Buckley

  • An international consensus for assessing internet gaming disorder using the new DSM-5 approach

    Nancy M. Petry;Florian Rehbein;Douglas A. Gentile;Jeroen S. Lemmens

  • The Impact of Video Games on Training Surgeons in the 21st Century

    James C. Rosser;Paul J. Lynch;Laurie Cuddihy;Douglas A. Gentile

  • The Internet gaming disorder scale

    Jeroen S. Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg;Douglas A. Gentile

  • Television and Video Game Exposure and the Development of Attention Problems

    Edward L. Swing;Douglas A. Gentile;Craig A. Anderson;David A. Walsh

  • A normative study of family media habits

    Douglas A. Gentile;David A. Walsh

  • Video Game Playing, Attention Problems, and Impulsiveness: Evidence of Bidirectional Causality

    Douglas A. Gentile;Edward L. Swing;Choon Guan Lim;Angeline Khoo

  • Longitudinal effects of violent video games on aggression in Japan and the United States.

    Craig A. Anderson;Akira Sakamoto;Douglas A. Gentile;Douglas A. Gentile;Nobuko Ihori

  • Brains on video games

    Daphne Bavelier;C. Shawn Green;Doug Hyun Han;Perry F. Renshaw

  • Violent Video Games as Exemplary Teachers: A Conceptual Analysis

    Douglas A. Gentile;Douglas A. Gentile;J. Ronald Gentile

  • Facet importance and job satisfaction.

    Robert W. Rice;Douglas A. Gentile;Dean B. McFarlin

  • Influence of socio-economic status on habitual physical activity and sedentary behavior in 8- to 11-year old children

    Clemens Drenowatz;Joey C Eisenmann;Karin A Pfeiffer;Greg Welk

  • Internet Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    Douglas A. Gentile;Kira Bailey;Daphne Bavelier;Daphne Bavelier;Jeanne Funk Brockmyer

  • Pathological Video-Gaming among Singaporean Youth

    Hyekyung Choo;Douglas A Gentile;Timothy Sim;Dongdong Li

  • Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective.

    Hans Jürgen Rumpf;Sophia Achab;Sophia Achab;Joël Billieux;Henrietta Bowden-Jones

  • Long-Term Relations Among Prosocial-Media Use, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior

    Sara Prot;Douglas A. Gentile;Craig A. Anderson;Kanae Suzuki

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig A. Anderson
Craig A. Anderson Iowa State University
Sarah M. Coyne
Sarah M. Coyne Brigham Young University
Christopher P. Barlett
Christopher P. Barlett Kansas State University
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
C. Shawn Green
C. Shawn Green University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel S. S. Fung
Daniel S. S. Fung Institute of Mental Health
Barbara Krahé
Barbara Krahé University of Potsdam
Dongdong Li
Dongdong Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hans-Jürgen Rumpf
Hans-Jürgen Rumpf University of Lübeck
Nancy M. Petry
Nancy M. Petry University of Connecticut

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