Negative Effects Of Violent Video Games

Sherry, John L. (2006.January, 10). Violent Video Games and Aggression. Human Communication Research 27.3(2001):409-431-. Retrieved from http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com

Video Game Violence has been a big controversial topic for many years, going back to the most simple classic video games like Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede and Space Invaders,which eventually turned into more modern games like Destiny and Grand theft Auto. This research expands and analyzes the idea of how video game violence is always accused and put to blame for aggressive events and how the research of this is faulty . The way most people look at video games and how people try to connect them to violence could needs to be corrected. Within this research we will be looking very closely at how these studies and tests were done on violent video

Throughout history man kind has always searched for ways to entertain himself, each time developing new activities and games. Video games have become a very popular way to spend time and have fun from the 1970’s up to now. With new developments appeared different video game genres from adventure to racing, but the violent video games appear to be the most popular ones (Shin, 2003), for example: shooters, fighting and video games where you have to eliminate, destroy, or kill your enemies.

The paper discusses how violent video games affect a person's behavior and if they manifest violence and show aggression in the real world after playing such video games. I learned that not all people who are exposed to video game or media violence turn violent. I think it depends on the person if he wants to get influenced from the game, to mimic what the game shows. This is just like the next source, discussing about what kind of behavioural problems violent gaming brings about.

Over the past few centuries,video games have become a great leisure and hobby among kids of all ages and cultures. With the advancement of technology, video games have advanced highly in its realism and genres. This high type of advancement brought the video game industry to a multi-billion dollar industry. However, with realism, comes negative effects as well. Ever since the creation of violent or “mature” video games, there has been a constant debate on whether it will increase violence in the player. Although, not all video games are violent, and just increase skills in a player such as hand-eye coordination. Nevertheless, there is research going on for the link between violent video games and youth violence. The question is which event happens first in the sequence, do violent video games aggravate a person’s violent behavior, or does a person get rid of their anger through playing violent video games? Either way, violent video games are not beneficial to our society.

According to Hollingdale and Greitemeyer (2014), Video games that are violent are identified as very popular games that are played by the consumers. There is a concern that violent video games may pose a public health risk due to the levels of aggression due to the effects of the video games. In a cross sectional studies it has been found that there is a positive correlations with real life and video game aggression. Also in longitudinal studies shows that playing violent video games constantly it can predict that there may be later aggression even after controlling for initial levels of aggression. Experimental studies have showed that playing the video game is a factor of an increase level of

It shows that playing cooperatively helps increase cohesion and cooperative behavior. Not only does it help cooperation within the video game the people are playing, but it transfers to their outside behavior, even increasing cohesion with those they did not play with in the game. This article was published only two years ago, making the research done still relevant. The main author, Tobias Greitemeyer, has done research before in relation to psychology and video games, making him familiar with the subject that he is researching. This is published by the well-known source of European Journal of Social Psychology, which is well known for its articles on the subjects of psychology, much like this one. This source will be used to show the positive emotional effects, and even possible reversal of aggressive behavior, that video games can provide if they are played within the correct context. It even shows that playing a violent video game in a team context can help with improving the players cooperative

Some would argue that people’s emotions have a much greater influence on the change in behavior while playing violent video games. For example you could base the violent behavior “...not by the actual game, but by the emotions caused by prolonged use and frustration of not being able to get through the tough parts. Sometimes the seriousness of people’s emotional responses is not always taken into significant account when the research is conducted” (Danielski 1).

When considering the different common psychological perspectives that are available, it can become difficult to discern which one best accounts for a particular psychological belief. That being said, the author leans towards the opinion that the behavioral perspective is the psychological perspective which best accounts for the accepted connection between video games and aggressive behavior. This perspective is founded on behaviorism, but it also incorporates the social-cognitive theory. This perspective places observable behavior and the importance of learning as the key tenets. It is based off of the belief that an individual’s behavior is a product of the rewards and punishments that they have received as the results of their actions. However,

This study concluded that violence in video games had nothing to do with violence. In reality, the study found that the level of competitiveness tended to increase violent behavior. The study found that regardless of if the video game had violence or not that violent behavior never increased or

But not all video games are violent: in fact, video games can promote cohesion through cooperation rather than competition. Multiplayer games sometimes implement a cooperative mode enabling players to use teamwork to achieve a goal instead of contending for supremacy. This cooperative multiplayer encourages “(against the stereotype of gaming as a socially isolating action) the development of team, social,

Video games are the national pastime and have a lot of influences on our children, youths, and young adults. The drive to become the best or beat the game can change the player's outlook on life. Violence in video games has been seen as the cause for aggressive and harmful behavior in young children. Many children become addicted to these video games when they are not monitored. The game child plays can be a good or a bad thing in his life. Some games teach children to develop problem-solving skills, enhance creativity, knowledge retention and literacy. However, the same case does not apply to violent video games. Many studies have shown that violent video games have negative effects on children. These video games have called for concern in our society regarding issues such as physical violence, such as biting, hitting, and kicking, yelling and screaming at someone and destroying properties. The effects of violent video games have varied, children becoming desensitized because these games reward their violent acts and let them view violence as acceptable conflict solver. It makes them resort to saying mean and hurtful towards others. The graphics on these video games cause children to lack empathy. They enjoy seeing another get hurt, see and view the world as a hostile place, and they are unable to relate to the emotions of the other. People have been blaming video games for school shooting and children behavior. But research, as shown that there are many positives effects violent video games, have on children.

“Violent video games model physical aggression. They also reward players for being alert to hostile intentions and for using aggressive behavior to solve conflicts. Practicing such aggressive thinking in these games improves the ability of the players to think aggressively. In turn, this habitual aggressive thinking increases their aggressiveness in real life.” (Anderson,

Different investigations have demonstrated that fierce substance, in video games, desensitizes players, such as kids and genuine viciousness. At the point when players progress toward becoming desensitized, they tend to build their animosity and lessening their sympathy. Different analysts have shown that playing video games among kids does not prompt huge forceful conduct. Since the greatness of the impact in the meta-investigation might be a result of distribution inclination. Regardless of weight from different social orders, numerous computer games contain a lot of savageries. Savage recreations are believed to advance sentiments of energy, fulfillment, and strengthening among players. Not standing, Przybylski et al, conveyed an examination on video games and presumed that they want and pleasure in the future play was connected to the capability and the experience of self-rule in the video game, and not

The Journal of Adolescence tested the used for modern meta-analytic techniques to combine the results of empirical studies of violent video game effects on five types of outcome variables: aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, helping behavior, and physiological arousal. Meyers research was mainly statistics which contrasts with the journal article. For the journal article, Anderson found significant effects of violent video games on each of these five variables.