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Vid Game

http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html
DOES PLAYING VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES CAUSE
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR?
Playing by the Rules
Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago
27 October 2001
Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D.
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Some social psychologists argue that playing violent video games causes aggressive behavior, among other things (desensitization to violence, disinhibition of violence, belief in a ‘scary world,' acquisition of cognitive schemas supportive of aggression). Three types of evidence are said to converge in support of this conclusion: correlational studies, field studies (which are typically correlational in nature), and laboratory experiments.
Correlational studies can tell us nothing about whether violent video games cause aggression. Even if we accept that there is a correlation between amount of time spent playing (violent) video games and aggressive behavior, there is no reason to think that games......


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