video game violence
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New Metastudy Confirms Video Games Don’t Cause Real Life Violence
Video game violence has long been associated with real life violence due to the belief visual imagery can impact a young person’s level of aggression. Now, a new study is disproving this assumption.
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Trump Says ‘Gruesome And Grisly Video Games’ Are To Blame For Mass Violence, But The Reality Is More Complicated
In the wake of two mass shootings, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the nation to say that “gruesome and grisly video games,” among other things, were to blame for the tragedies.
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New Study Finds Violent Games Might Actually Curb Real-World Violence
The results are in from the world’s first long-term study into the consumption of violent media and its effect on real-life acts of violence. (If you’re a member of the Australian Christian Lobby, you may want to sit down for a minute.) Not only did the study find zero link between the consumption of violent…
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Maybe The People Who Criticise Violent Games Should Play Them
IGN editor-in-chief Casey Lynch works on weekends and asked me last Saturday to chime in on the topic of violent video games. I present my replies here as well to highlight the two things I brought up which are my two main frustrations about the debate about video game violence.