Joseph Chisholm's Study

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If you are a huge gamer like myself, you have thought about this as much as me. Has your mom ever told you “Get off that game!! Video games do not help you at all”. Now with the information I have found you can finally tell her “yes it does”. Do you remember when you first started playing COD (Call of Duty), you could not turn around and kill the person shooting you in the back. But after playing COD for a while you can turn on them. Turning on someone is a term used by gamers to mean that you turn around and kill the person shooting you in the back. There was a recent study by Joseph Chisholm a psychologist at the University of British Columbia. In his study Joseph found that people, who play action video games where able to identify

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