Poll: Do violent video games cause violent behaviour in children and adolescents?
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yeah, i've always resented the official line on this (yes) as a gamer - seems to me that violent people are violent before video games, and video games just set them off...
Hell yeah, I saw a giant floating Colossus in a field the other day and I got my bow and I shot that fucker right in the gas sack.
Nope. In fact, most studies that supposedly demonstrate this connection are either being misquoted, or they were poorly run and didn't produce meaningful results. All most of them show is that already violent people enjoy playing violent video games.
If I weren't lazy (and the school report I did this research for wasn't from 5 years ago), I might give you some links.
If I weren't lazy (and the school report I did this research for wasn't from 5 years ago), I might give you some links.
I don't think the question is wether or not man can be violent, but if video games can help bring it out of him. Do they give someone with the inner urge new ideas and ways to unleash his demons? It's a given since the beginning of time, man has been a very violent race. But are video games a catalyst?MaxTheReaper said:
It's a stretch to say a flat-out "no", because there is some evidence that violent games can cause a short-term raise in aggression in young people, or at least some young people. "Family" groups often seize on these findings as proof that violent games cause violent behaviour, but it doesn't really show that. What has never been proved is that violent video games can have lasting effects on someone's personality. Compare it to reading an action thriller novel: it might get your heart pumping a little faster and make you a bit wild-eyed for a few minutes after you put it down (which is what has been tested in the studies), but it probably doesn't make you more likely to punch someone in the face a week from now (what the conservatives say is proven).
Given that the massive proliferation of violent music, films and games has coincided with a gradual but noticeable decline in violence among all age groups, I'll have to say no.
I don?t think violent video games make people violent just like violent movies or TV shows don?t make people violent. Violent people may play video games or watch violent movies as an outlet for that aggression of something like that. But I don?t think any one violent medium can make a person violent or passive rather it?s a combination of social and economic factors and what have you that determine a person?s temperament.
No and besides why is context never taken into account like games based on WW2 sure its was a violent period but thoses actually involved are celebrated heroes whereas someone playing a historically accurate digital representation of the same event is labled a criminal or socially unbalanced or 2 seconds away from going on a killing spree.
short answer NO
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