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Weeeheey! Finally some responses into this topic!

Regarding @lionwarrior28 Thank you for pointing out some of those articles, would you mind if i asked which country you are from? Hope you managed to take part in my questionnaire. In regards to psychological data, which is the prime scientific tool for investigating the effects of video games and violence/aggression, so far actual data is rather limited, there is enough findings to support either side, and in my research I've found that the possible effects of video games are actually less profound that the effects of violent movies and TV shows, other research into the effects of violent video games has found that the actual context of video games and how the violence is used can actually make participants more prosocial, decreasing short term aggression. Of course, it's not without saying that video games don't have any short term effect, in fact they do, however, the question I ask myself, and the one I'm trying to investigate is whether video games actually have any long term effects on aggression, however, due to the nature of my investigation, only a brief overview of the possible effects could be investigated. I've also found some research into children with psychological disorders and their gaming habits, and found that video games had no effects on them. But then there is research which has found that video games do indeed increase aggression. Also, thank you for article links, i'll give them a read, if you would like, or anyone else links or names of the scientific articles, I could provide some for you guys.

I myself am more in agreement with MrGeezer above, science has yet to show any evidence for long term effects of violent video games on our psychology. I myself have been playing video games of all sorts, from puzzles, to manhunt, to war games, to pokemon, i love games, and honestly, I've never been in a physical fight, or even much of an argument either, I'm just a very passive person and my 'hard core' gamer friends, I can't consider myself hard core because, well I play games but I'll be honest, I suck, I just play them for fun, but those friends that I do have they are pretty much the same as me, passive, huge gamers. I do think games like GTA have gotten a lot of shit from the media, and let's not forget, the media loves to use scapegoats to shift blame from the real cause or the most probably cause of the violence, like in the US the media will not dare attack guns and gun policies, and then shift the blame to psychological disorders or violent video games, when in fact video games has been found to be less influential than movies in regards to violence, so the study suggest currently, this can all change in a couple of years, thats the beauty of psychology.

In the case of children playing games that are not for their age range, well, we can only blame whoever bought those games for them, but we can blame the game or make restriction for games just because others were irresponsible.

Anyways if you guys want me to link or post the name of some of the scientific articles I've found, I'll gladly do so, but I would like remind everyone that when reading news articles, there is always an agenda behind it, and its always best to question all you read, even scientific articles in psychology, although they do have more credibility that news articles, there is nothing concrete in psychology.

Dan :)

Hi guys, so I've heard on the new a lot about the effects of video games and how its causing or contributing to making more violent/ aggressive. But I don't know about this, I been playing video games of all sorts since I was 5 and I'm very passive, and so are my friends who are hard core gamers.

So seeing as I'm a psychology student and I have to do a dissertation, why not do it in something I like; video games, and something that in the mainstream media quite a bit.

Here is a link to a questionnaire I've developed, using a gaming habits section, which I modified and developed from an existing one, an aggression scale, and an attitudes toward violence scale. I would like to say that the last 2 were not made by myself, or are any reflection of my beliefs or are at all related to video games when they made, just they are useful scales that have been used before so have some validity behind them.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EkKCxEuWNFUR-ggNpnTI0PVzGmhNLdRO6qsPsGnNieE/viewform

So hopefully you will help me in my data collection by taking part in the questionnaire, passing it along. Let me know what you think, if not just reply to me in general what you think of the effects of video games on violence.

Have a nice day guys :) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EkKCxEuWNFUR-ggNpnTI0PVzGmhNLdRO6qsPsGnNieE/viewform