Dr. Karen Dill

LENOIR-RHYNE PROFESSOR PARTICIPATES IN VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE SUMMIT

Dr. Karen Dill, associate professor of psychology at Lenoir-Rhyne College, recently participated in the National Summit on Video Game Violence and Public Policy.

The invitation-only event was sponsored by The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University. The summit was held to bring together the top psychologists in the area of video game violence with the video game industry and policy figures.

Dill, who has done extensive research on the effects of video game violence, was selected to serve on a panel on public policy. Her topic was "Video games and women's issues: Research and implications for education." She was joined on the panel by professors from Yale, Pepperdine and Pennsylvania State universities.

Dill also serves on the American Psychological Association Committee on Interactive Media Violence, which is working with the video game industry to improve the ratings system.

Dill has been interviewed by numerous members of the news media on the subject of video game violence and its effects on American youth. Shortly after the summit, she was interviewed on a program called “These Days” on radio station KPBS in San Diego, Calif. The other guest on the program was the creator of a Coumbine simulator video game called “Super Columbine Massacre RPG.”  The full radio program may be listened to online at http://www.kpbs.org/radio/programs/these_days?id=6333

More information about Dill and her research is available at  www.lrc.edu/psy/dillk.

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