arstechnica.com — An upcoming study suggests that kids with stable personalities are largely unaffected by violent games, while the response of less stable children depends on primarily on how angry they are going into the game.
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tech42erApr 4, 2007
Oh shut up, Jack!
inajeepApr 4, 2007
Is this because all your friends are sad or is it just you who are sad, so very sad? You are pull stats out of your butt because most if not all people I know who game are normal & well adjusted.
nsmikeApr 4, 2007
Or Football.
shinynewApr 4, 2007
This study isnt that good I dont think. It would be interesting to see how well these kids did in the game. You know you get real f**king mad when you just keep getting completely slaughtered. And when you do good your anger level can easily drop.
kuntakinteApr 4, 2007
tell it to the damn pope
razorsharpApr 4, 2007
This study is BS and those conducting it have an agenda, it just so happens their agenda is different from those who have BS studies which claim video games cause violence. No one knows precisely how to incite specific actions within a human without some form of conditioning. The advertising industry invests billions in psychologists and psychological studies trying to find forms of suggestions which are 5-10% effective (which is why ads must be so prominent). In other words, the premise of the study is flawed, and there's no way to conduct a controlled study with enough participants to actually draw any realistic conclusions.This is one of those things in which one uses common sense. It's a lot cheaper than a study. If you use Grand Theft Auto as a babysitter then your child very well may be influenced by it. But that all depends on the child's intelligence, maturity, education, and a billion other variables one cannot possibly hope to take into account. So, just in case, it's probably best to keep GTA out of little Billy's hands until he's a mature teenager who actually gets the joke. Of course, if mommy and daddy do neglect Billy and GTA turns him violent, then the parents are to blame.Violent video games aren't an issue. The fact that people demand excessively violent content is the issue, but censoring the content only makes it seem that much more mysterious and intriguing. Why do non-violent games sell in Japan and Europe but so rarely in the States? Americans lavish in aggression, that is a problem, but the solution is much more complex than removing conceptions of violence; it involves ridding the violence these conceptions are based on.
meowbiusfoxApr 4, 2007
This just in: Poo Poo's are brown and squishy and smell really bad.
Closed AccountApr 4, 2007
I am not sane and stable. Are you?
pvtjenkinsApr 4, 2007
xGORDOx got it right. Who plays video games? Nerds. People who play video games are still classified as nerds/dorks etc. Can you see those people on violent rampages? More like violent rampages on the forums. The real violent kids are the assh**e, dickass, meatheads who obsess about football and "competitive" sports. Those are the violent kids in school, NOT the kid who just had a marathon Final Fantasy session.
slimfadyApr 9, 2007
Surprise?
drivebayJun 10, 2010
I'm curious as to why a person who obviously has a lot of disdain for gamers is even on digg. Most people on here are of the 20something demographic I would think and many people are gamers. I'd like to think you're just trying to stir up controversy...