https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...is_there_a_compendium_of_the_studies_showing/
Or if you can't want it in one place:
So yeah, just a couple of peer reviewed studies about video games and their effects on real world behaviour, with the ones reposted above suggesting that they have no harmful effects (and are likely even beneficial).
Could be useful whenever you see an die hard conservative or moral guardian or SJW saying how 'video games cause violence' or other crap.
Or if you can't want it in one place:
- Violent video games and real-world violence: Rhetoric versus data. APA Markey, Patrick M.; Markey, Charlotte N.; French, Juliana E. 2015 OCT
- Does Media Violence Predict Societal Violence? It Depends on What You Look at and When - Journal of Communication. Ferguson 2014 NOV
- Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study - Alison Parkes, Helen Sweeting, Daniel Wight, Marion Henderson. 2012 DEC
- Just a game after all: Violent video game exposure and time spent playing effects on hostile feelings, depression, and visuospatial cognition Jose J. Valadez, Christopher J. Ferguson 2012 MAR
- No evidence of cause - Swedish Media Council. 2012 JAN
- [Proposes alternate causation] Preference for Violent Electronic Games and Aggressive Behavior among Children: The Beginning of the Downward Spiral? - Media Psychology Maria von Salischa, Jens Vogelgesangb, Astrid Kristena & Caroline Oppla 2011 SEPT
- Supreme court rejects all studies correlating video games with violence - Brown v. Entertainment Merchants 2011 JUN
- [Proposes negative correlation and implies flaws with positive studies] Blazing Angels or Resident Evil? Can Violent Video Games Be a Force for Good? Ferguson 2010
- [Implies flaws in methodology of studies with positive result] A motivational model of video game engagement. APA. Przybylski, Andrew K.; Rigby, C. Scott; Ryan, Richard M. 2010 JUN
- [PUBLICATION BIAS] Evidence for publication bias in video game violence effects literature: A meta-analytic review. Ferguson, Christopher J. 2007 JUL
- Internet Fantasy Violence: A Test of Aggression in an Online Game. Dmitri Williams & Marko Skoric 2005
- Video Games and Real World Violence: Rhetoric vs Data
So yeah, just a couple of peer reviewed studies about video games and their effects on real world behaviour, with the ones reposted above suggesting that they have no harmful effects (and are likely even beneficial).
Could be useful whenever you see an die hard conservative or moral guardian or SJW saying how 'video games cause violence' or other crap.
