New Study Claims Violent Games Cause Increased Aggression In Youths

[danasider]

The responses here are expected, but it's not something to take defensively as a gamer, imho.

There's been studies linking child aggression with seeing aggressive behaviors since before the 1900s.

The reason you will see "there's no link with a and b" is because there hasn't been sufficient studies. Not because the link doesn't exist. Even then, it's almost impossible to prove causality so all that can be stated is the link.

But there's also been studies on desensitization of violence (in particular, people didn't know they were seeing real deaths on screen because of all the violence they were used to seeing in media) and again, the link of acting out aggressively after witnessing aggressive behavior in children. Actually pretty old news. Video games are just a recent phenomenon (yeah 30 years old, but still).

I personally believe nurture is a much bigger factor than nature when it comes to how a person turns out (socioeconomic status, victims of abuse are more likely to abuse others, etc.) That's not a slight on the gaming community. It's human nature.

Which is why little kids shouldn't be playing games where they are blowing people heads off or killing hookers. Nothing mind blowing here.