Psychotic said:
Augen said:
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. |
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.
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To be fair they don't actually find a link between media violence and actual violence. They measure temporary increases in agression most often and that does not always equate to real life violence. When it comes to actual violence studies often show that video games have had a positive effect as people are less likely to act violently in the real world.
Are people who play violent video games more likely to do commit violent acts then those who play other video games, probably. But that would more likely indicate a correletory link rather than causal.
