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Psychotic said:

Hi,

I'm currently in the process of writing a bachelor's thesis on "The effect of violence in the media on human psyché" with focus on videogames.

I'd be gerateful for some relevant sourced info about this.

As things stand, I'm basically ready to conclude that videogames and other media do indeed cause real-life violence to some unspecified extent.

Thanks in advance.

Really? I agree that violent video games do cause small temporary increases in agression of a person's mental state but have there been studies that were able to analyse people who started playing violent video games then went on to be more likely to commit violent acts in the real world?

It would be hard to analyse as people who already play violent video games  may play violent video games because of their violent personality as opposed to violent video games making them violent.

I would be interested in a study where people who commited violent acts were gathered and some played violent video games while the others did not and we could see the effect it would have. My guess is that violent video games may help keep generally violent people busy and less likely to commit violent acts.

 



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