I can't even understand what Manticore typed.
I could pull out some more literature, but there is both evidence saying that video games causing more violent behavior and that video games do not support violent behavior. In general its mixed, but it does lean towards video games causing violent behavior. Its something that really hasn't been studied enough though.
Most people, when they say games don't cause violence, are referring to prolonged effects. Something you can't study in a short amount of time.
Ego hoc, propter hoc? Something like that. First this, because of this.
It doesn't work that way.
Studying kids and if they play "violent" video games, then seeing if they have violent tendancies is one thing. But as maradon pointed out earlier, they have absolutly nothing to do with each other. The parents mold the child, not the games. A strong sense instilled early on of what is right and wrong, and that video games are just that, games, will pretty much ensure that the child leads a healthy, well-adjusted life.
In schools and daycare where you can't do ANYTHING even remotely violent nowadays, kids almost need the violence ever-present in games. When I'd go out for recess in elementary school, we'd play tag or whatever.. push each other down, etc. Being excessivly rough. Nowadays, if you see anything other then a tap, it's OMFGBAD and the child has to be disiplined.
Wtf.
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There was much rejoicing when Falaanla Marr said this:
I'm curious as to when the tests were done that prove this in relation to when the games were played -- Adrenaline rushes happen during many games (Heck, when I'm in a close game of Madden 2k5, I can feel my heart rate increase when I'm close to winning a game or when I bomb a pass to Smith for an 80 yard TD).Most people, when they say games don't cause violence, are referring to prolonged effects. Something you can't study in a short amount of time.
The first point is a good one. If I remember correctly, some of the tests were done over a longer period of time. I very much doubt any of them studied only during the actual gameplay experience, or the test would have been quite pointless.
The person who presented that summary was one who came to the conclusion that video games do have some short term effect on children's behavior, but not a long term effect. I'd have to look it up though to be sure.
Like I said earlier, I've found mixed results on the issue, both for short term and long term. Sadly, no very long term (10+ years) have been done yet, simply due to the relatively short lifespan of the game market so far. Those studies that have tried to find out the very long term effects have applied prior studies to it based on violent media, movies, and other anger studies.
Delphi, regardless of the effect of the parents, the child's actions are going to have an effect on the child. This includes other types of games, both physical and mental. A lot of studies have been done on that topic, and you can't just decide that they don't apply to video games for whatever reason. Talonus fucked around with this message on 10-10-2004 at 10:09 PM.
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I could pull out some more literature, but there is both evidence saying that video games causing more violent behavior and that video games do not support violent behavior. In general its mixed, but it does lean towards video games causing violent behavior. Its something that really hasn't been studied enough though.
Just goes to show you that you can use research to arrive at any conclusion you like, so long as you set out with the intent of arriving at that conclusion (or are funded by those with such an intent).
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Verily, Maradon! doth proclaim:
Just goes to show you that you can use research to arrive at any conclusion you like, so long as you set out with the intent of arriving at that conclusion (or are funded by those with such an intent).
Oh bullshit. I pulled that summary from a scientific journal. All the studies the author cited were from scientific journals. I said that the results have been mixed overald. As I just posted, the author supported that video games had no long term effects.
With your logic, we could just throw away anything written in a scientific journal. Hell, lets throw away anything that any scholar has ever said before! They all had intent to come to some conclusion right? Its impossible to conduct a study with no intent, as you wouldn't even think to start the study in the first place.
