Link between online gaming and violence killed off

[edge]

This is the finding of Miss Jane Barnett and her colleagues at Middlesex University. Their results will be presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference in Dublin today, Wednesday 2 April 2008.

The psychologists recruited 292 male and female online gamers, playing the game World of Warcraft. The players, aged between 12 and 83 years, were asked to complete a questionnaire on anger, aggression and personality and then played the game for two hours. After this time they were they were asked to complete the test again. Read More (http://bittnews.com/3277/)

[mike11]

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/02/19/study-violent-games-make-players-quotcomfortably-numbquot-suffering-others

[Mathew Thompson]

World of Warcraft is not what I would consider a sufficiently violent video game to induce anger or aggression. If you were to subject the players to a game like Counter Strike or Gears of War for the test, I'm sure the results would vary.

[Olin Coles]

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/02/19/study-violent-games-make-players-quotcomfortably-numbquot-suffering-others

I found that this research was very informative, and held a basis for real-life every-day experiences. Apathy towards poor government has become the end-result of several generations or poor politicians. Violence is the next standard that will present itself to the people as commonplace.