Video games don’t cause violence As many as 97% of us kids age 12-17 playing video games contributing to the $21.53 billion domestic video game industry. More than half of the 50 top-selling video games contain violence. Scientists have looked into the use of violent video games for more than 20 years but task force chairman Mark Appelbaum Ph.…
Playing violent video games does not cause kids to commit mass shootings or become criminals. People all over the world play video games, whether they are violent or not. While there has been over 150 million americans who play video games there has only been 71 mass shootings between the years 1982 and august of 2015. Only seven of the 71 were committed by a minor under the age of 18. Mass shootings are only committed by mentally unstable people not by just a regular video game player who’s trying to have fun or relieve stress.…
Scientist have been bothered with video games for years. Twenty years ago they started research on video game violence. Violent video games were first created in 1933. Scientist have been baffled at violent video games and the effect they have on the human brain . Violent video games only cause an increase in aggression, violent thoughts, and violent words.…
After the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, which ended the lives of twenty students and six teachers, reporter and media were quick to jump on the alleged rumor that the shooter played violent video games. A Nearby town, even rallied violent media such as CDs, DVDs and video games and had them burned. Although the rumor was proven false, people still fear what violence and video games will cause in people. Many psychologists are positive there is a link however, video games do not cause violence because crime rates have dropped during violent video game releases and factors that have been unaccounted for in people 's personalities have made previous data inconclusive.…
Video games have been around for ages. Almost every american household has a gaming console. Video games have become a daily thing to do for most of the youth today. The simulated violence in these games have been said to have negative effects on the youth. There are always people who have blamed video games or games with simulated violence for school/mass shootings and other tragic events.…
Erik Kain explains how video games could possibly be influencing violence in kids. Video games are addictive to some kids and the more they play them the more they get shut out from reality, and then they start to be influenced by them. “Some studies have shown that video games increases aggression.” This shows that violent video games aren’t harmless they can do harm and effect some kids behaviors. There have also been dangerous shooters who were addicted to video games, “Dylan Klebold… the Arizona shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, the Norway shooter… Anders Behring shot 77 people.…
Some games are intellectually stimulating and serve a useful purpose. Little is said about the brutality that children view on tv on a daily basis. Tv violence used to be blamed in cases of destructiveness in the past before video games became popular. Back in the day music was blamed for bloodshed as well. In today 's society when savagery occurs, we the search for a culprit, but the truth is there is never just one cause.…
video games do not contribute to violence. Gun violence is less prevalent in countries with high video game use. A study study of countries representing the 10 largest video game mariects found no correlation between playing game. The United States had 2,279 murders committing shooting by teenagers. Playing violent video games does not cause kids to committed messing shooting.…
The brain is one of the most complicated organs of the human body, it is composed of several intricate segments and within those segments are even more minute elements. The brain can tell us a copious amount of information about how our environment affects us and our emotions. Today’s technological advancements have allowed us to look into the brain and find out more information on what happens within us. Many people in the world debate about several everyday things and what affects those things might have on us. One of the many great debates is whether playing violent video games causes the players to be more violent.…
Video Games Do Not Make the Player More Violent Violent video games do not affect people in negative ways. Recently many people have been doing tests to see if video games are making people, mainly teenagers, act out in more violent ways. When video games affect one’s behavior, it is called “priming”. Although video games have become more violent over the years, video games do not make teenagers act out more cruelty because data collected from tests show no change, some psychologists believe it actually reduces poor decisions, and today almost all young males are playing video games yet they are not all acting out. Several tests have been done to see if brutal content in video games affect the player negatively, but no data has been found…
Extra Life with Videogames A new game has just hit the market and is becoming a major seller to all the kids. However, this game is rated M for mature, meaning kids over the age of seventeen can play. The way to purchase the game for those under the age is to have a parent with them. Sex, violence, gore, and drug use are the major feature of the game.…
Video games, are damaging our future generations. It's estimated that 160 million people play video games in the United States, that is a 40 percent jump since 2006. Since, this has been climbing, we have seen an increase in child obseity and a decline in academic achievement. It is evident, that children are spending more time, in the house playing video games rather than outside being physically active. Having increased idel time is responsible for the increasing health problems amongst, American children.…
Many instances throughout the timeline of video games, there have been many cases and controversies over video games. There are also many games throughout the history of video games that have been brought up in studies and on the news questioning the content and what harm it could do to many minors and adults. I will hope to look at these studies and come up with the facts that may be wrong or exaggerated and hope to be a non-biased opinions; giving facts and opinions from all sides and hope to come up with a solution to a problem that may or may not exist. I also hope to both the positive effects of violent video games along with the negatives if any factual evidence. Ever since the first video games came out there have been controversy about…
Even though video games have long term effects on aggression there has been no evidence leading them to be the source of violent actions, though they are a factor that can lead to violence. Then when videogames are mixed with something such as depression from being bullied, something like the Columbine Massacre could happen, but only in extreme situations. With the obsession of the players, the lack of evidence, and the need for videogames to be combined with other factors it is clear that video games do not cause people to act…
Not only our financial, video games also cause many bad effects on our brain and behaviors. As some newspapers, like Tuổi Trẻ or Thanh Niên, has reported, the amount of primary students who commit crime after playing games has increased rapidly in recent year. Is video games are responsible for these violent actions? Of course they do, although I don’t really like to admit it. According to Doctor Walsh’s studies (2002) there are four mains resons for the agressive and unsocial behavior of video game’s…