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.

Edit: I'd like to ask some of you to stop posting "I played videogames since I was 'X' and I'm not violent". It's irrelevant. My grandpa smoked 2 packs a day and never got lung cancer.

No. Research has been done on this countless times and every time researchers come to the conclusion that video games don't cause violence. In some cases it even improves the behaviour of children and teaches problem solving.

People are the cause of violence, not video games.

The issue tends to be showing a correlation. Some people may become desensitized to violence in gaming and be susceptible to acts. The problem is that these kind of minds in the absence of games could easily be affected by other stimuli in the same fashion.

In large numbers gaming has not shown to make cultures more violent. If anything we are less violent than our ancestors. However, there are other factors at play so I wouldn't jump to games causing us to be less violent.

We have been violent for thousands of years due to our brain development, it is humans burden to overcome their own violent nature. Good news is we're getting better, bad news is we have a ways to go.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12129/full

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2014-33466-001/

Try to access these through your university databases, so you don't have to pay for them.

But the truth is most of the research does conclude there is a causal relationship between media violence and real-life one. True, the critics of those stuides do point out major methodological errors in those studies, but still... I didn't read them (as I would have to buy them for a lot of money), so I can't ell if that's true and it's hard to sound unbiased when you disregard so many peer-reviewed studies.

Crime is at all time low while gaming is at all time high, gg

Paranoia can do wondrous things.

I can't get to them the way you said - not American enough

But I have my ways. These might help. Thanks a lot.