Violence in Video Games

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

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...