Violent Video Games Heighten Aggression

One of the most mentioned issues regarding the debate around video games is that they heighten aggression. While some studies suggest an argument that violent video games cause increased violent behaviours, individuals, as well as some media outlets often, fail to see that this "heightened aggression" is often merely frustration at the game itself. One can easily picture the scene of an angered teenager screaming at the TV in their room due to a failed level, quest or mission or even the death of their character as if they were cut off whilst driving by a speeding heap of metal that narrowly misses their own. While many teens experience frustration in daily life and video games can serve as an outlet for that frustration or inadvertently amplify it, there is not a direct correlation between violent crime and playing violent video games - merely heightened aggression, such as moving less politely to get on a crowded train, or cutting someone off in traffic; were such a connection to exist the rate of violent crime should logically have skyrocketed since the advent of video games as popular media.
There are a number of studies which prove this, for example,
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