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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

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Post by jcims »

They should do the same thing with porn.

Paper - https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0049

It's not particularly compelling to me. Not sure what the formal term is but it's a sidecar study of another project. There wasn't much investigation into how the kids were playing the game, and level of personal aggression was determined by self-survey.

Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

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Post by qrybam »

I think for those of us who have played any amount of shooters can attest that the game itself wouldn’t make you any more violent. It’s one of those “common sense” things that for non gamers seems obvious: “violent games make you more violent”, and the for the gamers out there the opposite is true, it’s obvious that they don’t.

Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

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Post by nchase »

This reminds me of when I was at grad student in that area. It was really frustrating to read all of the studies from e.g. Anderson and Bushman asserting the links between violent media and aggression.

These publications were headline-grabbing, but some of the study design was laughable. The whole state of affairs led me to leave the discipline (which led me to a career as a software engineer). I'm glad that I did, because the reproducibility crisis hit hard within a few years of me deciding to do something else with my life.

Some of the studies that I read made me think that there was a link between frustration (caused by e.g. undesirable outcomes in videogames, or performance issues like high latency) and aggression, but of course the researchers assumed it was the violence.

Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

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Post by nchase »

nchase wrote: post #5

This reminds me of when I was at grad student in that area. It was really frustrating to read all of the studies from e.g. Anderson and Bushman asserting the links between violent media and aggression. These publications were headline-grabbing, but some of the study design was laughable. The whole state of affairs led me to leave the discipline (which led me to a career as a software engineer). I'm glad that I did, b…

PS: if you want a real treat, take a look at how some of these studies measure "aggression".

My favorite was where they used the volume of hot sauce poured into a cup as the measure of aggression.

Hopefully they've come up with some better ways of measuring it since then.

Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

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Post by Hamuko »

jcims wrote: post #2

They should do the same thing with porn. Paper - https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0049 It's not particularly compelling to me. Not sure what the formal term is but it's a sidecar study of another project. There wasn't much investigation into how the kids were playing the game, and level of personal aggression was determined by self-survey.

>They should do the same thing with porn.

What's the hypothesis?

Re: Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

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Post by emteycz »

chillwaves wrote: post #7

Can 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.
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