Research Shows No Link Between Video Game Violence And Real-World Violence

This research is invalid. This is the type of stuff that will be laughed at in 50 years. It's been proven with even older research that violent media causes violence in children. There is a causal link but you're too ignorant to accept it. Admitting this is true doesn't mean anything bad. It just means parents need to be more active in their childs life. The same research that correlated media and violence almost proved this is mitigated almost entirely by positive parental guidance.

Let alone, we shouldn't be challenging this notion. We can replicate the decades old sample groups and show the causal link to this day. Children imitate what they see on TV. It's fact. If a child grows up to violence and doesn't have parents to tell them it's bad. They will grow up thinking violence is good.

I mean, you guys are quick to say the Bible is bad, causes violence, ect..but when it's magically videogames you then take the time to acknowledge people are bad, not media.

Do videogames cause violence in some people? Yes. Should we do anything about it? Yes, we should make it so those wackjobs are put away before they cause harm. Trying to censor games is wrong.

Both assertions are valid: There is a link between violent video games & increases in aggressive behavior AND no link between video game violence & real world violence. They aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm more aggressive in my driving immediately after leaving the theater having watched Fast & Furious X but I've never had a related real world accident either.

I'm baffled why this topic is so interesting. I think this falls into the normative of experience for most people, certainly nothing revelatory or novel. Just feels like typical media traffic bait, which clearly works! :)

just like every new media... Rock n Roll ....Movies...Rap....now video games... people love to blame something other then the person or their parenting.... makes them feel better I guess.... Can I live on the Moon yet? ...please....

Poor countries where people cannot even afford video games are often much more violent than anything the "First World" experiences.

Just cause I want to murder your face off in C.O.D. doesn't mean I want to in real life!! .....most of the time

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Jury is STILL out, folks, so stop patting yourself on the back..... And this GS article looks like self-jerking for gamers.

no shit sherlock -_-

Maybe not violent crimes, but it does increase violent behavior in my home with kids. My son has been banned from them because he was acting out pretend killing over and over on us and others and doing the knife slashing for pretend to our necks from CoD. My nephews when they lived with me were putting holes in our walls and breaking things and fighting each other because of Mortal Kombat And WWE Vs RAW. My son is calm and good now since taking them away.

These damn professors have too much time on their hands.

Interestingly enough there is also a link between Roe v Wade and a decrease in crime as well...its all about how you do the research.

What about violent video games and the desensitization to violence? That correlation seems to make more sense.

Looks like it's that time of the year again, same as last year and the year before.

Now we wait for the next mentally ill person to go nuts and kill someone and let the police find out he played a videogame at some point in his life and then another study comes along to prove the other study wrong.

If they wouldn't be wasting time and money on that, I'd probably laugh about it.

People blaming games are just bad parents who never knew that there was something wrong with their kid. Too busy to pay attention and notice there is something going on.

And what is rule 1 of human nature? Blame someone/something else. Blaming violent games is just the perfect scapegoat. I remember a guy who went and killed a bunch of kids at school here and they found tons of drugs in his room. The guy was also heavily into child porn and all kinds of dodgy stuff.

Parents - We found violent games on his PC, most disturbingly, Doom 3 (lol reall?!) so it must have been the evil games!!

Get your head out of your ass and pay attention to your kids.

"....distract society from more pressing concerns such as poverty, education, and vocational disparities and mental health."

Ah, wisdom. Such a nice change of pace.....

In another study violent video games have been linked to Ebola outbreaks in teen youths (the scariest thing on earth to old white people, teens with Ebola).

More tax payer money is requested to fund violent video game studies and the link between asteroids, prostate cancer, black presidents and Isil or whatever is the scariest thing on the news lately- Beiber selfies maybe? More importantly, with millions of dollars more, we will eventually find a correlation for whatever you need us to at any given time.

"What he found was that violent video game consumption was "strongly" correlated with declines in the instances of youth violence. This downward correlation is likely related to "chance," and should not be taken as an indication that playing violent video games can lead to a safer world, Ferguson said."

One could say that the fact the youths are at home playing any videogames and not out on the streets is what leads to a "safer world"? ^^

Lies because whats her face says otherwise, but in all honesty any one but the ultra crazies believed there was a link between media and real life violence

Any link between an individual about just being crazy? I played a lot of Mortal Kombat and never once it lead me to believe I was Sub-Zero!!! Damnit....if you think you can emulate what you do in GTA or any other violent game...in real life, you got problems...It's just a fkn videogame!!! Oh crap....It's true!!! I just cursed....my goodness....I have problems!!! Damn videogames make me so violent aaaagh!!!!

Another year, another study, welcome to what most gamers already know.

If theres no link between videogames and violence, then how come people are still saying they cause misogyny?

Nailed it.

Yet another study that confirms videogames aren't the source of violence. If someone is going to commit an act of extreme violence, it's not the material you should worry about, but the source.

Mental health and society's inability to be aware of it are what cause these things to happen. No sane person is going to say after playing payday 2, "Well just robbed this bank and got away with it, now i'm going to go do it at my local bank".

I totally agree with this and same thing should be said about guns. Instead of focusing on gun control, attention should be put on more pressing concerns such as poverty, education, and vocational disparities and mental health.

Well D-OH! !!

So my friend Ginger was telling me today about an episode of "Law and order" I've never seen the show.. But anyway, She explained how the episode was about this rapist who uses a turkey baster with rubbing alcohol to erase any DNA evidence of his sexual attacks on a woman if you catch my drift. BTW This is explained in the show in much more graphic detail than I am typing it.


I was shocked as to how this is "Prime time TV" and it's TOTALLY OK, but video games seem to always be under a microscope!? O__o

honestly i have seen ALOT more people being violent because of rap music.. these kids see these rappers and think its cool and try to be them and do drugs and think the hood is cool... the only violence i have seen from video games is little kids with imaginations..

UP TIGHT people don't care! They will still say violent videogames is the core of ALL EVIL!!

Oh, really?

In other news the sky is blue...