video game violence
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Do Video Games Make You Violent? An In-Depth Look At Everything We Know Today
14Early last year, 70 French university students sat down in a room. A group of scientists told the students they would be participating in a study to measure the effects of video game brightness on visual perception, and that they would each be paid €10 ($13) a day for their efforts.
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Obama Pal Slams Video Game Commercial: ‘Shouldn’t We Also Quit Marketing Murder As A Game?’
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school, the advertising freight train chugs along mostly unaffected. Video game and movie studios continue to hype violent entertainment, filling coveted advertising slots with gunfire and explosions. It creates a juxtaposition with grim reality and an unspoken commentary on the violence Americans see and…
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Take Comfort In Your Apathy
It happens a lot but, each time it does, I take comfort in my boredom. I take comfort in the fact that it matters less — that more people just shake their head and sigh. That we don’t rush to our keyboard with a grimace, bashing out the same words we’ve been typing for the…
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Are Video Games Helping Reduce Crime?
Despite the fact that video games have been invariably blamed for a multitude of violent criminal acts over the last decade, some researchers are actually making the claim that the increased proliferation of video games are among the factors helping reduce crime in the United States.