> "Aggressive Behavior" is very different from violent acts - especially > on the scale that we're discussing (premeditated mass-murder). > One of the studies I quoted used as a measure of aggressive behavior how many fights the kids were involved in at school, and also whether they agressed against their teachers.
>From what I remember of the fights I got into at school, I'd call that sort of >aggressive behavior violent. > I've already admitted that playing violent games does indeed increase > aggressiveness - that's been shown. However the effect is both > temporary and does not increase either violent acts or modify morality. I don't think its temporary. Given the results of the same study, how often the kid played violent games was a direct influence on violent behavior. There were direct and indirect effects, in other words the effect of the video game showed some further influence via over levels of hostility even when the direct effect was accounted for. As for your second point about modifying morality, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/01933973/2003/00000024/00000004/art00073 or this article: Playing violent video games, desensitization, and moral evaluation in children http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W52-4950R9F-3&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2003&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=d8e149c7f57ea97e0db6e585df521915 Jeanne B. Funka, Debra D. Buchmanb, Jennifer Jenksa and Heidi Bechtoldta Abstract Relationships between short- and long-term exposure to violent video games and desensitization, as measured through components of moral evaluation, were examined. Sixty-six children aged 5â12 years old completed questionnaires assessing video game experience and preferences and empathy and attitudes toward violence. The children played a violent or nonviolent video game and then responded to vignettes about everyday occurrences. Vignette responses were coded for aggression and empathy. Preexisting empathy and attitudes towards violence were positively related to the corresponding vignette scores. Long-term exposure to violent video games contributed to lower empathy vignette scores. Playing a violent versus a nonviolent game did not affect vignette responses. Results suggest that long-term exposure to violent video games may be associated with desensitization as reflected in lower empathy, although the direction of causality remains unclear. It will take some more looking on my part, but I suspect that exposure to violent video games has a long term effect on moral development and morality. continued exposure to models dealing with situations in a violent manner has an impact on how the observer reacts. Enough exposure and it become internalized and thought to be the "right" was to react to things. The scientific literature is fairly clear on the matter, exposure to violent video games tend to increase violent behavior. A meta-analysis by Anderson and Bushman (2001), see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11554666&dopt=Citation, found that across 54 independent tests of the relation between video game violence and aggression, involving 4262 participants, there appear to be five consistent results of playing games with violent content. Playing violent games increases aggressive behaviors, increases aggressive cognitions, increases aggressive emotions, increases physiological arousal, and decreases prosocial behaviors. These effects are robust; they have been found in children and adults, in males and females, and in experimental and nonexperimental studies. This is not to say that no studies have failed to find evidence of an effect. However, the majority of studies have found such evidence. I could go on and on, but I think I have proved my point. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232915 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
