Playing violent video games may increase aggressive thoughts, behavior.
USA Today (3/2, Jayson) reports that a review published March 1 in the journal Psychological Bulletin "'strongly suggests' playing violent video games increases aggressive thoughts and behavior and decreases empathy." Iowa State University researchers arrived at that conclusion after performing "a statistical analysis of" 130 "studies on more than 130,000 gamers from elementary school age to college in the USA, Europe, and Japan." However, a "critique accompanying the study" noted that "the effects found 'are generally very low,'" pointing out that "the analysis 'contains numerous flaws,' which" may "result in 'overestimating the influence' of violent games on aggression."
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