On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:09:29 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>Remember all that hoopla  more than a decade ago about how 
>children watching violence on TV will re-enact violent episodes
>on the playground and other areas of their lives? As a matter a fact,
>a famous image in  most psychology intro text was of a child imposing havoc on 
>a bobo doll.

Actually, according to Wikipedia (yadda-yadda) the first research
study by Bandura was in 1961.  See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_doll_experiment
Here is some early video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHdovKHDNU

[snip].
>        Now,I see a difference between the earlier TV viewing and the current 
>video games.The latter is more participatory whereas the former is  
>passive.One 
>can argue that this does not negate
>the subsequent effects of observing violence but it does appear that current 
>video games allow a degree of instant participatory display of aggression that 
>staves off displacement to other future activities and social interactions.

Perhaps you should consider the role of video games in training future armed
forces; see:
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2003/10/60688
(NOTE: this article is from 2003)
and
http://www.armedforces-int.com/suppliers/virtual-simulations.html
and, more generally, the concept of war games and simulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_simulation
(yadda-yadda)

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]




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