Effects Of Violent Video Games Cause Violence

Another point supporting violent games is backed up by a study Journal of Adolescent Research. This study concludes, “Kids use games to experience fantasies of power and fame, to explore and master what they perceive as exciting and realistic environments, but distinct from real life, to work through angry feelings or relieve stress” (Casey). Another theory is that violent video games might cause guilt. Research shows that gruesome video games can induce a feeling of guilt that could have a positive effect on kindness, civic engagement, and prosocial behavior (Casey). By making kids feel bad, they may want to do something kind to feel better

A huge controversy in today’s society is violent video games and their behavioral effect on the children and adults who play them. Violent video games have been blamed for bullying, school shootings, and even violence towards women. Many have fought that violent video games desensitize players to real-life violence, and that they are teaching the youth that violence is an acceptable conflict-solving strategy. Other sources have stated otherwise. The 2004 Secret Service has stated that only one-eighth of attackers have exhibited interests in video games. Violent Video games do not cause violent behavior or behavior problems because it has not been proven that there is a link between violent video games and behavioral issues, playing video games provide a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings and reduces violence in young children, and violent juvenile crime has actually gone down since the violent video game popularity has increased.

Addiction: Fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. Addict: Person who is addicted to a particular substance. Videogames have become our new scape goat when it comes to having fun and doing something in our leisure time. So often, we find ourselves captivated by the new games that are coming out and any new gaming devices. Videogames have managed to take control of our minds and only leave us a pinch of freedom. Electronic games have caused us to be lazy, develop criminal behavior, and has proven to be a leading cause in mass murders. Electronic gaming devices have played a major part in the evolution of America, not only causing us to be addicts- but have given us a reason to not participate in the real world.

The authors continue to point out the various influences that media violence is affecting the youth and studies that back up their arguments. Huesmann and Taylor then shift to another source of violent influence, videogames. The various ratings categories of video games, Everyone, Teen, and Mature, are mentioned and the fact that all three of them allow some sort of violence. It is mentioned that the Teen category consists of roughly 94% violent games which is astonishing. This turns out to become a major issue because of the amount of time that teenagers spend playing video games. The authors then mention studies that show that teenagers who play violent video games demonstrated

It is agreeable that there are some correlation between teenagers playing video games and how it affects the youth mentally. Heavy consumption of violence video games does indeed stimulate a change reaction in the brain waves, but there is no hard evidence stating that those changes causes teenagers to act aggressively and violently. On the contrary, it is a popular beliefs that violence video games does indeed causes teenagers to displayed unpleasant behaviors and actions because that is what they learned and observed from the games. Therefore, parents should limit and regulate the amount of time their teenagers are playing violence video games so that they can protect their children from negative behaviors.

In this article by Roanna Cooper states that between the age group of 9-24 years of age, are making the choice to be violent in real life and trying to be more “popular”. Many researchers also researched on this particular topic and what they got out of these articles that if violent video game exposure resulted in increase in aggressive behavior over time. Results indicated that children who played more violent video games early in a school year changed to see the world in a more aggressive way and also changed to become more verbally and physically aggressive later in the school year. Changes in attitude were noticed by both peers and teachers. Dr. Olson points out that violent video games may be related to bullying, which researchers have found to be a risk factor for more serious violent behavior. Researches, for example, have found that living in a violent neighborhood and experiencing violence as a victim or witness is associated with an increased risk for violent behavior among youth.

Video games have been around for half a century when, the first simple tennis game was designed by William Higinbotham in 1958. Since then, video games have gotten more in depth, with better graphics and more options which include violent video games. Violent videos have gotten more popular with a better amount of variety including the franchise of Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Grand Theft Auto. These are the most common and popular video games and because of the violence in them debate has started whether or not violent video games cause people to be more violent in society. Since the debate has started, research has been conducted and the introduction of violent video games into society has not cause violence to increase in adolescents and children.

A video game is “an electronic game in which players control images on a television or computer screen” (Merriam-Webster). Video games have been entertaining and challenging gamers since the Game Boy to modern console games. Despite the simplicity of the definition of video games, a video game, especially ones containing violence can have a large effect on the gamer. Because of the realism and advancements in the video game industry, video games can influence the player, and can make the gamer more aggressive, even if the game is not a violent video game. Even though video games have grown in popularity over the past decade, some have not been too popular with parents, for the reason that they are too violent. Violent video games affect

Video games and their alleged link to violent tendencies with people who play them and younger children in particular is not a new controversy in the gaming industry whatsoever, or is it really one that is currently being talked about. At least not as much as Mass Effect: Andromeda's atrocious character facial animations. But it's always good to address the inanities that are made by activists and conservatives who constantly attack and attempt to boycott developers from releasing a game they have spent years making saying that it's because of political correctness. The argument that games can cause violent behavior is one that does not provide any solid facts that games and behavior are correlated in any way. In fact there are more studies

It is reported from the previous experiment that I supported that males mainly played first person shooters, which is a main source of video game violence and action. So, is it possible that violent video games cause real life violence? Jesse Marczyk does not think so. Marczyk has a Ph.D. in psychology, and made a short article to explain why violent video games do not cause real life violence. Marczyk believes that a player who plays video games do not get affected or changes their behavior based off a violent video game, but instead looks for the experience of playing the game because it has the feeling of achievement when something is done, and skill growth. However, although he believes that games do not cause real-life violence, he does agree that there are some frustrations when playing a game. Players were given controls to a game that were purposely modified so the player would have to find new ways to adapt, and they mentioned feeling frustrated, which soon led to them feeling angry about this. As Marczyk says, “people felt angry when they were frustrated with the game; not

First of all, playing video games puts violence into the minds of the players and the players begin to get used to the terrorism in these electronic games. If this continues, adolescents may begin to think that online killing is okay which could eventually lead to violence in the real worlds being ok. And its possible that they could act rashly and hurt others by all the exposure to videogames. In the article “shooting in the dark” by benedict Carrie, the text says, “It was as if that exposure to computerized violence gave them an idea to go on a rampage- or at least fuel their urges.” (1) By playing violent video games, you are receiving these violent things into your mind that may be potentially dangerous to you and the people around you.

In the United States, Ninety percent of adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen play some sort of video game. They spend thirteen hours a week playing these games. According to CNN Health, if said adolescents are male that number is more than likely higher(Harding). The main question, however, is does the violence in these video games cause violent behaviours? Do prolonged hours to military like games cause adolescent youth to become and angry? Not at all. There have been many studies done to actually prove that violent video games have no effect on behavior.

Screaming and yelling, my brother punches through his bedroom wall. It’s six in the morning and he’s screaming at my mom for doing laundry. Maybe he has anger issues? But his temper has only been this bad for a couple years now. Ever since he started playing video games, like Call of Duty. Violent video games have been a battle that my family has been fighting for a few years now. My brother, started out small, playing Nintendo games and simple games like Crash. However, my brother has always had a slight anger management problem and even with easygoing games, he became furious when he lost. Because he has lofty dreams of winning every game possible, he will not stop. Now, with video games, like Call of Duty and God of War, my brother has become even more aggressive. Freaking out whenever he lost a match. He used to be such a sweet little boy, but now he screams and disrespects my mother. Afraid to anger him, my mom does nothing. Video games have been taken away from him, but he will never be the same sweet boy that he was. Many families are fighting the same battle. Gamers like my brother would disagree that video games are the reason he is aggressive. He argues that the reason he is aggressive is because of my sisters and me, which could be a part of the reason but what have we done to make him disrespect our mother or to make him destroy his walls? Although children, adolescents, and video gamers would disagree, research has provided evidence that violent video games

The technology usage in the United States has grown greatly over the past decade. Video games continue to change in several ways as well. All video games have ratings on them and when I was younger, my parents would not allow me to buy a game that was above my maturity level. Gun violence around has made an uphill climb around us as civilians. The fun that these games produce make it hard for crimes to commence. Violent video games have no effect on gun violence.

Video games with violent content can lead to aggressive behavior in teens. It can also desensitize them to violence. Studies have shown that teens who like playing first-person shooter style games are likely to adopt a detached view of the society. They also develop aggressive thoughts and tendencies.