Media Violence Psychology

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Media violence has been shown to somewhat pacify the parts of the brain that cause anger or aggression. On the other hand, some major crimes have been accredited to media violence. I know that media violence has little to no effect on mental states because: it’s been shown that the anger/aggression parts of the brain become passive when media violence is viewed or played, crime inspired by games is only a little under two percent of total world crime and it has been proven that media violence is a great stress reliever. I know that media violence has little effect on the psychi of most people.

First off, anger/aggression seem to become recessive emotions when media violence is viewed. It seems that the brain takes the media violence as false and feels no need to react to it in a violent or angry way. Although, media violence with objects such as the Oculus Rift (virtual reality headset), can cause aggression, as the brain is only receiving info that proves the violence is real, therefore provoking a real reaction. Games like Mortal Kombat and shows like WWE Wrestling can cause small violent outbursts in the moment, but not in the long run. Emotions such as joy or confusion are prevalent over anger or aggression when media violence is viewed.
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Only two major crimes committed in the US were inspired by games and shows such as PAYDAY or Batman. Other sources such as Mortal Kombat or WWE have done nothing to inspire crime, but have inspired many hilariously stupid videos on YouTube. Speaking of YouTube, videos there have been falsely accredited to crimes, used as a last minute scapegoat, but later discredited due to psychi evaluations. Human stupidity may be hilarious and violent, but it is not the cause of major

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