"Parents can be worried about all the other million things that we're worried about for our kids. But violent video games in and of themselves should not be at the top of that list."  - Dr. Rachel Kowert  Host Patricia Cangas sits down with Dr. Rachel Kowert, a psychologist and game researcher whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Dr. Kowert founded the Psychgeist YouTube channel and podcast to make game science accessible to the public. She tackles the persistent myth linking violent games to real-world violence, explaining how decades of research show no direct connection. "We've done this research, we've put millions of dollars of research funding into this to look at those links and we just don't see them," she explains. Parents learn practical ways to evaluate games beyond ratings and foster healthy gaming conversations with their kids.   In This Episode:    (00:00) Intro and why this topic stays in the headlines  (02:19) The plot twist: wha...