Saturday 22 August 2015

Violence in Video Games

Video games today are a lot more violent than a game created in the 1980's. and a research published in the JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical association by researchers in Iowa state university and the national institute of education in Singapore, found hints that violent video games may set kids up to react in a more hostile and violent way.

3,034 boys and girls in the third, fourth, seventh, and eighth grade were asked detailed question about their video games habit 3 times over a period of 2 years.
overall, their aggressive and violent behavior declined slightly throughout the studies, but that's because children tend to act less aggressively as they grow older.

but a closer look at kids who play more hours of violent video games per week revealed increases in aggressive and violent behavior than the other.

But studies like this often fail to account for other factors that can contribute to aggression, such as violence in the home, abuse, and mental illness.

The point of this continued debate, though, is that not all players of violent video games are gonna commit violent crimes.

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