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Perhaps that would be an option. Further research should be done. Perhaps developers should be encouraged to develop more less violent games (I know plenty of people here in the psyc department who...

Nv the point isn't that the games cause shootings. You're right, a person must decided to partake in an aggressive of violent act. The evidence indactes that they can be one factor that contributes...

>>Nice, what school? Undergrad? Plans for the near future?

I'm getting my BA from Washington and Lee University. I'm going to take a couple years to pick up some experience and take a break from...

Haven't read Bob's post year...Going to address Thantos first:

They did meassure participants trait aggression. In the first study, they found that this people who had aggression was increased by...

Yea but what does that mean for the purposes of the discussion Snipe?

How does that differ from other years? What's the link to video games? What's the link to other media? And just saying that...

hehe...thanks Bob, Govt. It's not often I get to talk about something I'm really good at around here. Nice to know I make sense to others when talking about the subject in which I'm getting a...

Hmmm, I don't know...I don't know if there's any actual research on that, but I would think there would be a difference. For your dad it was a more interpersonal game that had more flexibility and...

Of course they aren't. They are a factor. Just like genes and aggressive predispostions, family interactions, the success/failure of aggressive behavior in the past, the specific situation in which...

The speculation was built off the first study which I didn't summarize as much:


Edit: On a VERY basic level, the first study found that those who reported playing violent video games had more...

Ok...can I step into this fray for a moment? This is a topic that comes up numerous times in psyc classes, so I've at least listened to a lot of people talk about it - especially people that no...