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

Duh

[grub]

I committed most of my murders before I got into gaming.

Re:Can I get a ...

[Rude Turnip]

"Whoa why the hostility?"

Probably from playing too many violent video games...just a guess.

Re:there might be a difference

[voice_of_all_reason]

Hey, that's not funny. A grue killed my whole family.

Re:Can I get a ...

[Cylix]

I call BS...

I played a few MMO's, still play eve and what have you.

The worst is when I started playing WoW, fell in with chinese guys, started grinding and just massing large amounts of gold.

I hit rock bottom... nothing but grinding and gold collecting for weeks.

Now, I'm grinding away with this damned employment.

Just grinding and collecting cash.

Damn video games... I could have been a hippy!