Psychology Study Blames Games for Aggressive Behavior

[Frotality]

so fake violence desensitizes people to fake violence and loud noises desensitizes people to loud noises....next you'll be telling me seeing in the dark desensitizes people to darkness (which it does).

this seemed to be based in a logical fallacy of sorts... this just shows that humans adapt to things they are familiar with; TECHNICALLY you could say video games increase aggression, in the same way that sports do because your actively engaging in an aggressive activity. as a matter of fact, merely watching sports has produced far more violent behaviour than videogames. you could substitute a number of factors in this study and come up with similar results.

how about you pinch someone's arm, then pinch another guy who you kicked in the balls; the second subject will likely be desensitized to pinching.

 

[Jakub324]

I play violent video games all the time, and I blame them for my highly active imagination and my yet uncompleted novel! Yes, the desensitise us, but does that mean we all want to go out and shoot Ruskies? OF COURSE NOT!!!!

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

Really, I wasn't expecting them to do something like that. /sarcasm

Of course they would.

"We don't have any new studies but let's make up some bullshit and say we've noticed something."

 

[Jegsimmons]

OR.....maby that bullshit...

i don't no...does anyone else think that people tend to make the psychology reports up sometimes?

 

[DolorousEdd]

Violence is often caused by frustration. Frustration is most commonly and most strongly evoked in "social" (or not so) contexts. Without a serious disorder, people can usually keep themselves sufficiently in check. Violence by itself is not attractive to a sane mind and cannot "convert" someone to it.
That are just some common sense observations.

 

[Shenonymous]

"Basically we as gamers have to concede that yes, violent games DO desensitize people to violence and encourage people to be more aggressive."

For those who deny it, deny it all you want, the research data shows that violent video games affect immature children's behavior, if not adults who have learned better the difference between reality and fantasy. This is not to say that violent video game are not to be sold, how about just not sold to children, and curbing their involvement in simulated war and all its gory?