Digital Media and Brain Development
Wed, Aug 28
|Harlan
August 28 at the Harlan high school. No registration is necessary, free past a dinner, free child care is available.
Time & Location
Aug 28, 2024, 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Harlan, 2102 Durant St, Harlan, IA 51537, USA
About the event
The Speaker -- Dr. Douglas A. Gentile is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, including studies on the positive and negative effects of mass media on children in several countries. His most recent books include Game On! Sensible Answers about Video Games and Media Violence, Learning from Video Games (and everything else), and Finding the Freedom to Get Unstuck and be Happier.
He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He was honored with the Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award to Media Psychology and Technology by the American Psychological Association, and he was named one of the Top 300 Professors in the United States by the Princeton Review.
Free pasta dinner from 4:45 to 5:30 and the presentation is from 5:30 until 7:00 pm. Free child care is available. No registration is necessary.