Since Stanford University Psychology Professor Phillip Zimbardo conducted his controversial 1971 prison experiment showing how easy it is for young men to be negatively manipulated, he has continued charting a steady decline in the academic, professional and social skills of young American Men (outlined in his 2011 TED Talk, The Demise of Guys).
Our focus is on young men who play video games to excess, and do it in social isolation – they are alone in their room.
Now, after studying 20,000 subjects, Zimbardo is warning that, because of their even greater preoccupation with video games and pornography, today’s young men are in a “masculinity crisis.”