Psychotic on 16 February 2015
| sundin13 said: Dr. Christopher Ferguson from Texas A&M does a lot of interesting studies on the effects of video games and other violent media: http://www.tamiu.edu/newsinfo/7-08-10/article5.shtml http://www.tamiu.edu/newsinfo/3-27-08/article13.shtml http://www.tamiu.edu/newsinfo/11-16-07/article5.shtml http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/longterm-us-study-finds-no-links-between-violent-video-games-and-youth-violence-9851613.html One of these is a meta-analysis (mass review) of "all published studies betwee 95 and 07" which said: "The results indicated no relationship between violent game playing and aggression, but did find that violent game playing was associated with higher scores on measures of visuospatial cognition," Also worth noting the difference between "aggression" and "violence". A lot of studies examine the effect of video games on "aggression" in some rather strange ways, and while they may find a "link" (once again, using some strange methods), it is much more difficult to produce a link between playing video games and committing violent acts. |
I'll certainly take a look at these, thanks. But from what I saw from Ferguson before, he seemed very biased.
