Monday, February 2, 2009

Video Game Violence

It is probably true that violent video games get people used to violence. If video games were less violent, people would probably get less violent, and maybe there would be less fighting in real life. There was a test done with 257 college students. One group of students played a violent video game for 20 minutes and another played a nonviolent game for the same amount of time. After 20 minutes were up, their heart rates were tested. Both groups had the same heart rate. Then the students had to see a video of violence in real life. The students who played the violent games had the same heart rate as before, but the ones who played nonviolent games had a faster heart rate. You can read this article at http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20060728/video-games-numb-players-to-violence.

1 comment:

  1. Do you have a link or url (address) for the study you were commenting on? You make some very interesting points and I'd love to read the article!

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