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Mostly, he stayed home and played violent video games for most of the day and into the night.
After every gun massacre, I mentally start a countdown to the first headline pointing out that the shooter played violent video games.
The researchers found that participants who played violent games blasted their opponents in the secondary task for longer, which was interpreted as an increase in aggressive behaviour.
Duerson's concern was believed to have been centered on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, an incurable disease associated with depression and dementia in athletes who played violent sports like football and boxing.
If we want to mitigate risks of harm to our children (or the risk that our children will harm others), we need research on the specific effects of the most commonly played violent games, and of playing violent games in social groups.
The results would almost certainly be much different if the test subjects played violent combat or horror-survival games like those in the Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty series, just as you would expect film buffs to have different physiological responses while watching "Rambo" or "Saw III" as opposed to "The Little Mermaid".
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Girls play at lower rates and are significantly less likely to play violent games.
One is that playing violent computer games can have beneficial effects.
These thoughts do not arise from playing violent video games, Buss argues.
I confess I don't think kids should play violent games.
Psychologists have confirmed that playing violent video games is linked to aggressive and callous behaviour.
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