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Violence and Video Games Part 9: The Statistics/Conclusion

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April 19, 2013

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How about another approach? The psychology looks at the behavior of individuals. Let’s get big-picture. If a poisonous media environment to which games contribute is really the driving force behind gun viole...

Violence and Video Games Part 8: Benefit of the Doubt

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April 2, 2013

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But here’s where I extend the most possible benefit of the doubt to Anderson and Bushman. I think it would go too far to say that violent games or media have zero short-term psychological effect. In fact, a...

Violence and Video Games Part 7: Ferguson’s Results

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March 29, 2013

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Getting back to Ferguson’s results, he concludes that players of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault were not significantly more aggressive in the CRT than players of Myst III, but there were other factors that ...

Violence and Video Games Part 6: Criticism

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March 21, 2013

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Even before I get to the professional criticism of Anderson and Bushman’s work, I can find some holes in the conclusions on my own. Bushman cites a joint statement made by the American Academy for Pediatrics,...

Violence and Video Games Part 5: More Experiments

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March 15, 2013

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Last week, we explored Anderson's first experiment; this week, we delve deeper into the experiments conducted to answer that age-old question: do video games cause violence? The second experiment in the ...

Violence and Video Games Part 4: Anderson’s 1st Experiment

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March 8, 2013

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Last week, we took a look at some examples that Anderson gave on video games' adverse effects on children. This week, we'll look at an experiment conducted by Anderson himself. The experimental...

Violence and Video Games Part 3: Anderson’s Examples

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March 1, 2013

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Last week, we took a closer look at the debate. Today, we’d like to discuss Dr. Anderson's research and cases of violence and video games. I’m not a psychologist, but I am qualified to note academically susp...

Violence and Video Games Part 2: The Debate

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February 22, 2013

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Last week, we started our series on the controversy between violence and video games. Today, we'd like to frame out the debate and provide further insight to what is going on. There’s a phenomenon going ...

Violence and Video Games Part 1: Introduction

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February 11, 2013

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NRA Execute Vice President Wayne LaPierre has a problem on his hands right now. You see, the right-to-bear-arms crowd’s PR department is on the NRA's heels. Despite incomplete data for overall gun homicide ...