I'll tell you what does make me more aggressive. It's not the content of the video game itself. It's the other players in the multiplayer. I've basically sworn off of multiplayer for well over a decade now, with only vanishingly brief revisits to confirm things are only getting worse.
Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
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Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#22Can we do a study on a link between video games and ADHD or dopamine deficiency? https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/adhd-and-video...
People with ADHD are very likely to find themselves abusing drugs, or videogames. Not even dopaminergic drugs are causing ADHD, so why would games? Or what do you want to study? Yes, people with ADHD are likely to abuse games, that's well established.
Why is the prevalence of kids addicted to video games on the rise?
People are too quick to say "causation/correlation" but often times there is overlap. One can encourage the other.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#23I'm a rabid anti-gamer and I will tell you they are a gateway drug to antiproductivity.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#24Somewhat Tangential: Without any instruction my 2 and 4 year olds know how to turn things into weapons to beat each other with. Like puppies they seem to be testing limits to rough play. What surprised me is what happened when I didn't intervene: a few times the older one completely dominated and got his way. But more often than not the older one displayed empathy and tried to apologize and give kisses and give the y…
> I think kids have more ability to self regulate than we typically treat them as having.
This "kids need adult supervision" is a relatively new thing, we used to be sent out to play as kids for HOURS (be home by dinner) and ran the woods and parks or played murderball (soccer with tackling) and other forms of roughhousing, all without serious mayhem. Parents would let us "work it out" if there was a fight.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#25Somewhat Tangential: Without any instruction my 2 and 4 year olds know how to turn things into weapons to beat each other with. Like puppies they seem to be testing limits to rough play. What surprised me is what happened when I didn't intervene: a few times the older one completely dominated and got his way. But more often than not the older one displayed empathy and tried to apologize and give kisses and give the y…
That's why it's so important to let them play. They end up figuring out a lot of important things by themselves that it would be almost impossible otherwise.
It's kind of like watching kids invent society. Really quite fascinating to watch.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
People with ADHD are very likely to find themselves abusing drugs, or videogames. Not even dopaminergic drugs are causing ADHD, so why would games? Or what do you want to study? Yes, people with ADHD are likely to abuse games, that's well established.
Why is the prevalence of kids addicted to video games on the rise? People are too quick to say "causation/correlation" but often times there is overlap. One can encourage the other.
> Why is the prevalence of kids addicted to video games on the rise?
Because we have tons of companies peddling and researching how to create addictive games, without much regulation. Several of them even hide gambling (lootboxes) within games.
I played Hearthstone quite a bit in the past. The loading screen is literally the screen of a slot machine!
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#27I'm a rabid anti-gamer and I will tell you they are a gateway drug to antiproductivity.
And depression. Seriously there is a significant overlap between people who game daily and anxiety/depression/personality disorders.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#28I'm a rabid anti-gamer and I will tell you they are a gateway drug to antiproductivity.
Which is not necessarily a bad thing, if you're not looking strictly for productivity.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#29Can we do a study on a link between video games and ADHD or dopamine deficiency? https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/adhd-and-video...
People with ADHD are very likely to find themselves abusing drugs, or videogames. Not even dopaminergic drugs are causing ADHD, so why would games? Or what do you want to study? Yes, people with ADHD are likely to abuse games, that's well established.
The WebMD link and, thus the commenters intent, was the ADHD leads to videogame addiction and NOT as you have presumed, video games lead to ADHD.
Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior
#30Somewhat Tangential: Without any instruction my 2 and 4 year olds know how to turn things into weapons to beat each other with. Like puppies they seem to be testing limits to rough play. What surprised me is what happened when I didn't intervene: a few times the older one completely dominated and got his way. But more often than not the older one displayed empathy and tried to apologize and give kisses and give the y…
Yes! Risky play is an essential part of child development, it's how children learn to estimate and handle risk.