Study on violent video games

[hiyayhi]

He guys, I heard that there was recently a study conducted to show that there is no correlation between violent video games and real world violence.

 

Does anyone know what that study is or where I can find it?

I am fairly sure I either heard it on a recent TEK or WAN show. But I'm not sure.

[Sarcasm]

http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/21/archdischild-2011-301508.full.pdf+html

 

Go ham.

[hiyayhi]

http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/21/archdischild-2011-301508.full.pdf+html

 

Go ham.

Thank ye.

 

I can finally prove what I have been saying for forever with a text that actually matters.

[Canoas]

I don't see the point of this article. This would be easily proven by simple statistics since being a gamer and being a murderer are independent variables.

[hiyayhi]

I love these articles. I could go on forever, but im just going to say this. If you watch a scary movie, you get frightened don't you. Like a really violent, gorey movie, some people get terrified and have nightmares.

Now it's just a movie. You know that when you go to the cinema to see it. So if your conscious to the idea it isn't real, than why do you get afraid? Simple, the eyes and the brain (not your mind) do not corrolate to the images being fake, so they send signals to one another saying this is really happening.

Now whats the difference between a violent video game and a violent movie. Your eyes and brain don't distinguish whats real from whats fake. You can tell yourself its not real, but thats like telling yourself I'm not afraid of heights, when your brains getting images from the eyes saying "what am I doing up so high".

At any age you're susceptible to images and sounds, they can effect you in either good or bad ways. Say for instance from the age of 10 you've been playing fps games. Your brain from that time onwards has absorbed countless images of chaos and violence. It does'nt take a scientist to tell me that anything a young brain experiences in it's life that is negetive, will effect it detrimentally.

These are'nt excuses for the violence by young males, but they contribute. It's the same argument as smoking was and still is, 40+ years ago and even now people still argue and say there isn't a link between it and cancer, but the evidence is there.

Violent video games have been around for a long time, but the realism and saturation of absalute brutality and bloodshed has only been around for 10 or abit more years. Couple that same trend with movies. Lets face it, there was now Saw od Hannibal movies in the 30's or 40's.

Sure they had dracular which terrified people back them. We watch it now and we laugh, why is that? Because we no longer recognise it as being violent or scary, in our society we have become accustomed to violence, be it on the news, on the streets, in the movies or in a game.

The facts are there. People don't want to hear them nor accept them.

I am not saying that violent video games or movies do not desensitize you from violence. they do, I would argue though that there is no link between violent video games as a teenager / young adult and violence in  the real world.

 

I would say though that you could certainly get Ideas from movies / games if you have a mental condition. There is no denying that but saying that it is the same argument for video games and violence as cigarettes and cancer is a bit ridiculous.

[SocioPsycho]

If you still think games cause people to run out and hurt others after this there is nothing that can be done for you

 

Running through bf4 or some such and having your tank or other transport blown up will not have the same affect as in real life seeing those around you that you served with die. I proudly served and deployed in the Us Military as many times as needed of me, playing video games did not make my marksmanship better or give me any skills in combat.  Going to combat then playing one of these games may make some uncomfortable because they remember the true nature of war, but going into battle you never think back on some time when you were sitting in front of a tv thinking okay lets go get some headshots. 

 

Humans are violent by nature, the very need to survive, when that is suppressed with no outlet we bust out at other around us some worse than others depending on how long before we burst. Thus why gaming arcades in the 80s and 90s helped keep kids off the streets and the same to be said especially in small town areas where there is nothing to do but get into trouble, its an outlet not an intake.    

 

Watch this video below and it will tell you all you need to know

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS1Ys7lNXYY

[SocioPsycho]

Having being desensitized to something makes it alot easy to commit or ignore such events. Why is it that the majority of shooting are done at schools or Malls by young men. Some would argue "we'll that's because kid's go to school, adults don't" that's true, but that doesn't answer the question about countless shooting's at Mall's and public places. This whole argument though cannot be narrowed down to afew simple examples, it's far to complex and far to great for anyone to pin point what's really happening.

 

There is also the association between the military and the producers of these games, that's a pretty uncomfortable reality. If simulated violence wouldn't effect one in a real world way, why does the military use computer animated battlefields to train troops? Prospective troops come away from these "war games" well trained and accustomed on how to use their weapons and how to follow through of tactical engagements. 

 

This whole argument on violence in video games is new, but just as it was with smoking, sooner or later I'm confident they will say that this saturation of violence in the modern world has and does effect the minds of young people to the point where some are susceptible to committing real-world crimes.

 

Kids are mean, that's just a fact from where ever it comes from the need to fit in or be on top, kids are mean. When this is pushed onto other kids who then end up having an equally bad time at home it can lead to being unstable. So if a kid brings a gun to school and kills people he is doing so because of those who bullied him and didn't care about life anymore not because he thought it would be as fun as the game.  

 

Being told your a worthless shit bag that deserves to die added with physical abuse will do more harm to a child than any video game.The effects of abuse are seen all the time it is only a few that have the means or will to lash out when they break, others just try suicide. 

 

As for adults going into schools, and shooting people, I don't know why they pick schools, most likely because it will give them the most sense of power in their abuse ridden life. 

 

As for the military using video style games in training, it is very cretin things, you don't walk into a room pick up an xbox controller and stroll around.  Its cheaper to sit in a class room calling in mortar support again and again and again  learning your map reading skills and commands in a class room. The style the military uses is to train troops on command and react but that is only a TINY part thus why we spend 98% of our time in the field going over things again and again and again. Clear the house, good do it again, ect, carrying a radio in bf4  is not going to give you the skills to program and sync one in real life. 

 

 

Games have been around for a long time over 30 years and depending what style your talking about. People are violent and feel anger, to say some people will act out in anger and hurt someone from a video game is the same as saying cars will make EVERONE  have road rage. If your to the point where you are ready to lash out on the world in a violent way, hurting, killing as many people as you can, games are not the root of that. 

 

We all need someone now and again but when you never get that warm smile or helping hand and only feel the cold clenched fist your whole life you don't care about anyone's well being.