Video Games and Aggression: Context Matters
Assuming the role of a violent policeman in a video game softens one’s judgment of police brutality in real life.
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Video Games Linked to Aggression
A newly published meta-analytic review states emphatically that players of violent video games are at greater risk of engaging in aggressive behavior.
Solving the World’s Problems With a Joystick
The people behind the burgeoning field of serious games aim both to get people to care about solving world problems while learning that all answers have their consequences.
Video Games Are a White Man’s World
A 'virtual census' finds that, in the fictional universe of video games, white males still rule.
A New Clue to Finding Land Mines
Duke University Engineers use the classic detective game of CLUE™ to teach robots how to navigate minefields and find hidden explosives.
Hey, Grandpa, Pass the Xbox Controller
It's little remarked upon, but there's a thriving culture of video gaming among people who can legitimately join AARP, and intergenerational communication may just be the better for it.
Video Games Can Encourage Positive Behavior, Too
If violent video games encourage violent behavior, as a series of studies suggests, do prosocial games — those…
Violence Not the Source of Video Games’ Appeal
The presence of violence and gore does not increase the enjoyment of video games for most players, according…
This Is Your Brain on Violence
Research using brain-scanning technology finds that images of violence stimulate specific responses in the human brain that do not occur in reaction to other types of imagery.