Violence In Video Games By Dan Langfelder

In The U.S, 90 percent of kids aged from 8-16 play video games, spending about 13 hours a week. This is even higher for boys! So as you can see video games are a big deal in our society.  You may ask how this is effecting society? Research shows it’s having a neggitive impact.

Now a new study suggests virtual violence in these games may make kids more aggressive in real life. The study consisted of kids from The U.S and Japan and they observed before and after playing violent video games which I got from the CNN website. The children who were exposed to the violent video games showed more agressive behavior than their peers in the study who were not exposed. In the new study, Dr. Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., of Iowa State University in Ames, and his colleagues looked at how children and teen’s video game habits at one time point related to their behavior three to six months later. According to Dr. L. Rowell Huesmann, director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research “The findings are “pretty good evidence” that violent video games do indeed cause aggressive behavior.” This is comming from a man who has studied violence and agression in the media for thirty years.

The violence in these games are so real and they play it so often that experts say it desensitizes  violence.  It desensitizes them to gory image and they are not reconized as something bad but more like a common occurence.  The games may also encourage kids (and adults) to rehearse aggressive solutions to conflict, meaning that these thought processes may become more available to them when real-life conflicts arise, leading to a big social problem in our society. Its a baic fact that what your mind is fed is what it will think. Playing these games over and over again especially in kids who are still developing is a horrible idea.  I think video games are based around violence and people are getting pleasure from this violence. This reinforces the fact that doing something bad can feel good. Violence can feel good. I know that not everyone who plays video games maybe effected like this but everyonewho has a gun does not shoot somone but its still a risk and why have them. I believe that the more neggitivity we throw out there wheather its in videogames or whatever, cant do the world any good.

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