dyspoid Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Hey guys, I am a psych student, and I was having a discussion about this the other day. Some of you may be familiar with a famous study by Bandura, where he observed that children behaved more aggressively when they had engaged with violent media. The details are not really too important, but I would like to ask you guys a question... Have violent video games resulted in expressions of violence in reality? I have been playing violent games since I was a child, but I have never had a fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Yes. People fight. People who play video games fight also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrrhic Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 315 million people in the U.S. 7/10 people play video games 220 million people in the U.S. play video games Less than 220 million people in the U.S. shoot people in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majestic81 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 No, it depends on the person. playing video games doesnt make you violent unless you already are deep down. although if you already have an aggressive personalty then yes watching/playing these stuff might affect you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjeev142 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 No, it depends on the person. playing video games doesnt make you violent unless you already are deep down. although if you already have an aggressive personalty then yes watching/playing these stuff might affect you. I agree with you. Although I do believe that violent media may desensitize a person to violence in real life to an extent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dildo Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 violent media doesn't make people violent. the study you are referring to doesn't correlate violent media with violent behavior. it only reinforces the long-understood notion that children imitate the behavior of adults. the study allowed some children to observe adults being aggressive with a particular object. other children observed adults being nice and calm with the object. when the object was given to the children who watched the aggressive adults, they behaved aggressively. but when the object was given to the children who watched the nice/calm adults, they behaved calmly. there have been many studies conducted more recently that show violent games/movies have no affect on behavior. kids who are aggressive will be aggressive regardless. kids who are calm and patient will be calm and patient regardless. it all comes down to parenting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenBlade Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Video games are no cause for agression. There's a back story behind everything. Most likely, the person whom is aggresive has already had such problems previously, before playing video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdr279 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Mmm, yea I remember Bandura. Surely the young age of the children must have some influence on the level of manipulability of their behaviour though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pizza Delivery Guy Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 I always thought all kids were vile, inconsiderate brats. When I was in Kindergarten, the company I had were a bunch of farm boys, so they thought they were though bad asses, but one little tap would send them over the edge in a bawling fit. The other boys kind of just hung out and tried to survive. Most of the girls thought they were above the boys just because they were girls. I was probably "bullied" by the girls more often then the boys. Didn't help I was the youngest in the class. But enough about me, and most of them didn't play video games. Only one of my friends played PS2 with me back then. Those were fun times, and I don't plan on shooting up the school when it starts back up again. We killed people in those games because we knew that was what they were: GAMES. Violence in media doesn't harm kids' minds. The people around them do. The living, breathing people around them that they look up to and imitate in hopes of becoming what that other person is like one day. If the dad of a kid is a racist, homophobic wife beater, the kid's probably going to grow up to become a racist, homophobic wife beater, not because he saw it in a movie, but because he saw someone he knew doing those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcquiz Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Unless you consider attacking your pillows and the bed violence then no videogames don't make people violent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwabs Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 There're more positive effects video games have than negative ones. Playing video games 'll result in better hand-eye coordination, quick thinking, making fast decisions, etc. The negative effect could be things like confusing reality and fantasy since they're pretty realistic these days. But about violence, I'm not pretty sure. I guess violence in games and media does influence childeren a bit, but don't hold me on that. Here's an article about it if you're really interested. http://www.raisesmartkid.com/3-to-6-years-...-of-video-games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAKid667 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Video games are no cause for agression. There's a back story behind everything. Most likely, the person whom is aggresive has already had such problems previously, before playing video games. I agree with you DropThaSystem a game cannot make a person aggressive at all unless they are being bothered by something other in their life Meet the GTA 3 players who've spent a decade playing pass-the-pad to 100% the game | GamesRadar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyspoid Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 I apologise for the long delay in replying. It is good to see these responses. The most violent people I know dont play video games. I just wish game rating boards could see this. Most violent criminals were subject to abuse themselves. There are just too many idiotic logical errors in the media. Ahhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rabbit Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 people who play video games are no more aggressive than the standard average normal everyday person with a shiny new hat, tie, suit, shoes and car. and if you say any different I will break your face, behead you and stick your head on a stick and march up and down the street with that stick ok serious face: this whole thing has been covered many times over, nobody can say here what has not been said by about a million other people, and hundreds of those would have said it better. totalbiscuit came up with a fine analysis of this topic in the wake of that school shooting in america. go watch that, maybe not the primo, number one, absolute best, top dog analysis you will find, but it is a fine analysis and best of all it is simply put so anyone can understand it. Unless you don't understand English, because... he is speaking English in it, because he is English, and English is his first language. here is a link to the video incase you have not seen it, and I implore that you do if you have not, as it provides a good analysis of the topic at hand, and it is simple and easy to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zugzwang Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Most violent criminals were subject to abuse themselves. I don't think that's true either. Some people are just violent. While it's certainly true that the hard events throughout their life may make someone more prone to being violent, it's a huge generalization to say that the majority of violent criminals were subject to abuse. This is just blatant political-correctness. Video games don't play a role in altering someones fundamental personality and aren't a source of violence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanzant Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 "I have been playing violent games since I was a child, but I have never had a fight" That's got to be the most boring cliche ending to this topic subject. Every time somebody starts one these threads, they stand on one leg and don't even bother to consider the possibility on the other foot. So all this does it make most of the people who reply to look at it one sided. Just once, I would love to see somebody start this discussion with looking at both sides of the subject instead of weighing the opinion on the innocent guy who played violent video games since he was 12 weeks old and never so much as stepped on an ant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rabbit Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 "I have been playing violent games since I was a child, but I have never had a fight" That's got to be the most boring cliche ending to this topic subject. Every time somebody starts one these threads, they stand on one leg and don't even bother to consider the possibility on the other foot. So all this does it make most of the people who reply to look at it one sided. Just once, I would love to see somebody start this discussion with looking at both sides of the subject instead of weighing the opinion on the innocent guy who played violent video games since he was 12 weeks old and never so much as stepped on an ant. considering this is a fansite for a video game in which the primary activity is killing lots of people, do you find that at all surprising? The simple fact of the matter is the other side don't really have a leg to stand on, because their whole argument and every point you commonly see are pretty much all based on the "correlation implies causation" fallacy. Not to mention in this day and age pretty much every young person plays video games of some form in the 1st world, most of them violent, the most popular games are military FPS's for Pete's sake. (oh and Pete if you are reading you left your sunglasses here mate). At the same time all these young people are seeing violent films, reading books of violent content (as crime thriller books seem to be really popular now) and last but not least, whenever a terror incident or mass murder occurs the news put it on 24/7 and only serve to turn the perpetrators into some kind of sick god-figure to other aspiring psychopaths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zugzwang Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 "I have been playing violent games since I was a child, but I have never had a fight" That's got to be the most boring cliche ending to this topic subject. Every time somebody starts one these threads, they stand on one leg and don't even bother to consider the possibility on the other foot. So all this does it make most of the people who reply to look at it one sided. Just once, I would love to see somebody start this discussion with looking at both sides of the subject instead of weighing the opinion on the innocent guy who played violent video games since he was 12 weeks old and never so much as stepped on an ant. The reason the argument becomes one sided is because only one side has merit. Not every side to every topic deserves the same amount of consideration. There is absolutely nothing wrong with dismissing something on the basis that it's completely f*cking stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbolt Wolf Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Games don't make people violent, lag and cheaters do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Monra Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Yeah, world war 2 happend because Hitler lost in a game of chess. And the reason why Bush Invaded Iraq is cause a 10 year old girl called him a noob on call of duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killerdude Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Do video games make people violent? No, Other people make people violent. When most people play games, they are usually very calm and relaxed until disturbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchizNitz Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 No, it depends on the person. playing video games doesnt make you violent unless you already are deep down. although if you already have an aggressive personalty then yes watching/playing these stuff might affect you. I agree with you. Although I do believe that violent media may desensitize a person to violence in real life to an extent. I think being desensitised is somewhat of a good thing. I mean if there is some sort of tragedy involving violence then the desensitised person can deal with that more freely, if help needs to be given, instead of standing there vomiting because the site is horrific, that person can go help out in the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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