What is the link between violent video games and aggression? (By Pete Etchells). The Guardian, Thursday 19 September 2013 07.00 BST. http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/sep/19/neuroscience-psychology.
This article is about a compendium of different studies related to describes the relation or effects between violent video games (or any violent media) and the aggressive behaviors.
In the beginning of this article, the author explains that this theme has been investigated for a few decades ago, but continues to be a controversial theme in the actuality, although because it has recently been reported a lot of attacked and robbed that will probably been related to this violent games.
In a second part, this article describes some studies that support the main idea that video games are link with aggressive behaviors. An example of that is the one that been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, that proves that the participant that played video games after a competitive task are more aggressive that those who didn´t.
However, the author explains that the context is also a very important variable. A lot of studies proves that the aggressive behaviors are not the same if the context of the games change. For example, is not the same playing a video games by yourself, that playing to protect the life of a friend.
Finally, the article tries to express that it can´t be possible conclude this theme, because the published studies postulate different ideas and some methods were not very adequate.
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