Violent video games may make for physically aggressive kids
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Children who play violent video games are likely to display high levels of physical aggression, say researchers.
Two studies from Japan and the United States have shown that violent video games have harmful effects on kids and adolescents.
The study including more than 1,2000 Japanese youths aged between 12 and 18 as well as 364 children aged nine to 12 in the US has shown that despite cultural differences and disparities in crime rates, children across the spectrum were equally affected by violent video games.
“We now have conclusive evidence that playing violent video games has harmful effects on children and adolescents,” the Telegraph quoted
Craig A Anderson, a psychology professor at Iowa State University who lead the research, as saying.
“The [Japanese] culture is so different and their overall violence rate is so much lower than in the US.
“By gathering data from Japan, we can test that hypothesis directly and ask, ‘Is it the case that Japanese kids are totally unaffected by playing violent video games?’
“And of course, they aren’t. They’re affected pretty much the same way American kids are,” he added.
The study is published in journal Pediatrics. (ANI)
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Agamer said:
not saying you are right or wrong but for pretty much every study you find saying video games make people more violent there is most likely equal amount of studies saying just the opposite. Normally you would think both statements can’t be true right so then one side is twisting information or using bizarre test that don’ really prove that it causes people to be more violent. could you tell me what their experiment was? A number of the ones based on brain activity or have seen some that were based on them doing something to someone in a room they can’t even see are not really that accurate. The scans of the brain are taken directly after they have played the video game and shows no long term effects, as well that same test shows an increase in the part of the brain for emotional arousal and a decrease in the part of the brain controlling self control so what does that mean they could get mad easier and maybe be more quick to act out, as an immediate side effect of playing whatever violent video game they had been playing. Data can be twisted in many different ways to prove what you want to prove but violent crimes of adults and youths/ young adults are all down in the US and population and popularity of violent video games has increased from past years so violent video games havn’t really caused any problems in society. A research by surgeon general labels violent media as risk factors for causing teen violence as “small effect size”. There are 27 risk factors causing teen violence that are ranked higher then violent video games.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:01 am
