New Study Finds Violent Games Might Cause Increased Aggression In Youths

Can we please, just once, stop blaming outside factors that have little to no actual influence on people? E3 is absolutely correct in citing multiple studies that directly contradict this one. Moreover, video games have now taken music's place as the convenient whipping boy for all the "ills of youth." It's long past time to stopblaming relatively harmless pastimes and take a more incisive look at why these problems do exist. Has anybody bothered to link any increase in violence with a President who claims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkz7xgsPGmQ ?

Well...i played Double Dragon (game let you hit a woman Linda)Vigilante on Sega Mortal Kombat Killer Instinct Street Fighter and I never turned violent. In DD you knee a woman just like a Man. If anything I learned to have a certain appreciation for Orchid Kitana and other females for being strong enough to whoop men and be sexy but back to the point. Ez to blame games but not look at other media and our culture for influencing the younger gen. Moviewise I grew watching Friday the 13th Nightmare on Elm Street and Child's Play. It's not games but as said other media and perhaps life structure.

If people see others behave in violent ways then they also are more likely to resort to violence. Of course whether they actually do that or not depepends on their environment and upbringing. Playing a game doesn't make you violent if you don't have some aggression in you that would lead you to act it out in real life. But if you do have that pent up aggression and are seeing people behave violently in every day life, then chances are good that you'll adopt that behavior. While others who've experienced lots of violence in their childhood can turn out the complete opposite, because they've seen what it can lead to and don't want to become like that. But ehh, meaningless studies, always desperately looking for connections everywhere.

What was the video game Hitler was playing before the Nazis went out and killed 6 million Jews?

... oh right, aggression has always existed

"over time"

Like everything else that exists to alter learned behavior.

There's way too much about this "study" that I can't find information on or unable to determine if its accurate to take seriously. Firstly, what games did they actually use as a test? The NY Times article simply states '"games such as "Grand Theft Auto," "Call of Duty" and "Manhunt"', does that mean those games were used, or they're just throwing out the only violent games they know?

Also, the "study" indicates that "Stratified analyses indicated the effect was largest among Whites, intermediate among Asians, and nonsignificant among Hispanics." Well I wonder why that is...maybe because the white participants were THREE times more than the other two nationalities? Weird that they'd show a larger percentage than the other two. And...why no blacks?

I just find way too much "well that could skew those results RIGHT up" when the time lag ranges from 3 months to 4 YEARS. There are a lot more things that go on in a persons life in 4 freaking years that can cause them to grow aggressively. Like school for instance. Other people and real f'n life. And since there is no mention of what games were used for these metrics one can also assume that these guinea pigs were playing online games. Meaning? They were playing with toxic, aggressive, rude, racist and out-right asshole people ON THE INTERNET. Which has ZERO correlation with the GAME being the contributing factor to increased aggression.

So what did I take away from this "study"? That this proves absolutely nothing.

Cool. So one study "confirmed" this.

Now confirm it a few dozen more times to counter all the ones that disproved it, and then maybe we can start taking it seriously.

So the study only showed an extremely small effect of violent video games yet he's certain that violent video games make kids more violent. I don't think the moron doing the study understands the meaning of statistical significance.

I got in a lot of fights as a kid, but if anything discovering video games mellowed me out, personally. I feel like kids today play way more video games and also get in way less fights.

I had problems with aggression when I was younger, but I don't believe it came from video games. I was bullied very badly in school, and I think video games actually helped me cope with it.

Of course, this is purely anecdotal, but I wasn't nearly as bad during summer vacation when I didn't have to deal with bullies, so it may or may not be a coincidence.

"The truth is that violent crime has decreased dramatically since the early 1990s, while video games have increased steadily in popularity and use..."

This makes it look like videogames are having a positive effect by letting people who have more violent tendancies use videogames as an outlet. Violence and crime has been around a lot longer than videogames, and the fall of violence crimes with the rise of videogames, kinda counters the study's link between them.

"His own prior study found that playing violent games roughly doubles the risk of being sent to the principal's office for fighting."

This made me laugh too much... Pretty comical example for a study on violence in video games.

Dying without being able to save for a long time and losing a lot of progress would be far more likely to drive me to violence than game violence itself.

It would certainly be great if the article this piece is referring to actually had a link to the meta-analysis. Now I have to search for it and see if it's even remotely truthful...

Right, it's time we all boycott violent games starting with Red De-

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