Public officials and other critics raise concern about the role of media and culture particularly violent video games. At Ohio State University a controlled experiment took place where participants, like tens of millions young Americas that play video games including the widely popular Grand Theft Auto, were mowing people over, shooting police officers, and taking close aim at by-standers. After fifteen minutes of intense actions the participants were asked to answer questions, choose from thirty-two adjectives including mean, nervous, scared, and strong to describe their feelings, and even having to decide how much chili powder to pour into the drink of a would-be-opponent. All designed to measure any effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior. Phycology professor Brad Bushman, a leading scholar in the field for several decades, and the man behind the Ohio State research says the effects are “clearly measureable,” and more so with the direct you-pull-the-trigger nature of newer 3-D games.
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The creators, us, give it the valence of good or bad or destructive to it. Unfortunately the most popular video games, even among really young kids, are the ones that reward you for doing violence against others. When you think of the fact that people sat in-front of a flight simulator and learned to fly planes well enough to brink the world trade towers to the ground, and we are letting children ‘for fun’ in front of essentially killing simulators. Where are we going with that? We have to really recognize the fact that there are changes in their minds and they are thinking and their behavior that are going to come of that. If there were not changes from media and entertainment we wouldn’t do it. We need to go into these problems with our eyes open, understanding that we are changing our children, we are changing ourselves and we need to make sure that the changes that are happening are what we
The creators, us, give it the valence of good or bad or destructive to it. Unfortunately the most popular video games, even among really young kids, are the ones that reward you for doing violence against others. When you think of the fact that people sat in-front of a flight simulator and learned to fly planes well enough to brink the world trade towers to the ground, and we are letting children ‘for fun’ in front of essentially killing simulators. Where are we going with that? We have to really recognize the fact that there are changes in their minds and they are thinking and their behavior that are going to come of that. If there were not changes from media and entertainment we wouldn’t do it. We need to go into these problems with our eyes open, understanding that we are changing our children, we are changing ourselves and we need to make sure that the changes that are happening are what we