Sunday, 12 February 2012

OK, so I've read an article called 'A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: A 3-year longitudinal study of adolescents' from Elsevier. Apparently an experiment was conducted on 165 people to find out out if there were any violence or aggression that were related to playing violent video-games. The results of the experiment proved otherwise. It seemed video-games (mainly the violent ones) did not contribute, if at all, to youth aggression and violence. It turns out that there is something called Moral Panic Theory which can explain why many people think video-games cause violence and aggression to our children. This article helped to dispel any suspicions I may have had on the causes for aggression on violence but it hasn't helped me find out what exactly causes the player/gamer to become aggressive. Perhaps I might find out more from some other articles out there. Does anyone else know a better article that could provide me some more information on causes of video-gamer rage?

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