Kids 'Unaffected By Game Violence' Says Study

Via Game|Life, an article in the Syndey Morning Herald discusses a new study indicating most children are unaffected by videogame violence. Though the study did indicate that children already predisposed to violence or neurotic behavior were over-stimulated by these games, most children showed no difference in behavior as a result of game play. "The study monitored the behavior of children from 10 schools in eastern and southern metropolitan Melbourne before and after playing the violent video game Quake II for 20 minutes, Swinburne's Professor Grant Devilly said. Prof Devilly said only children predisposed to aggression and more reactive to their environments changed their behavior after playing and of those only some showed more aggression."

Comments

Of Course They're Not

[Greyfox]

Only retarded people are affected by video game violence. Just like only retarded people believe that people are affected by video game violence. Are children retarded? At least 2/3rds of them are not!

From the other 1/3rd one occasionally tries to blame some malfeasance on violent video games. This far that has not got a single one of them excused from having to take responsibility for their actions. That they still try is simply further proof that they're retarded. My regime would actually have no qualms about executing such people. We'd just tell them they were going on a fun ride.

Re:there might be a difference

[Jherek Carnelian]

Seriously. I know you are smarter and better than this.

Hey, whatever makes you feel superior. You go girl!