Carole Hooven, Ph.D.

He's still doing it.

And he's six feet.

And his friends are like one of them is like six, two.

And it makes me very, very nervous because they can really hurt each other now.

But yeah, they're still doing it.

I'm not sure.

what the current literature is on how social media is affecting play, other than it's not happening as much, which I think is obviously bad.

You're out there, you're being physical, you're learning about your body, you're developing relationships with other boys in particular that are trusting, but can involve physical aggression.

You mentioned something about wanting to have, what did you say, the chocolate bar?

What was it?

We have a mismatch.

We're designed to be motivated to seek out these foods, and we have to expend energy to get high-calorie foods, say, like we would have maybe gotten honey, and that would have been super rewarding, and we only would have had a little bit, and then we would have ran around and spent those calories, and now we have chocolate bar.

That's a mismatch situation that's maladaptive.

What's interesting is that we've figured out what to do to some degree with the male population

Any women watching this who are super competitive and aggressive, that's a thing, too.

It's not that women are not this way.

They certainly are.

And I see more and more examples on my iPhone from basketball games and stuff recently.

But they tend to be less physically competitive than men.

On average.