Well there you have it, nail in the coffin, video games = aggression, done deal.

Explitive!

This make me so angry!

I feel like I need to hit someone!

12 to 15? C'mon, do they even understand the psychology that goes into this kind of thing? Why not ask an adult instead? Oh, right...cause adults know what they're talking about, while children are more easily manipulated for the sake of masturbatory self-promotion against an unreal cause.

Not knowing how this study exactly went, I still feel that it might be very biased.

Hitting puberty usually means that the hormones rages and you are closer to frustration if something doesn't work out. Several parents can vouch for this.

Loosing in a multiplayer game on the console/PC = Frustration/Anger

Trying to fix your bike without much luck = Frustration/Anger

Not getting their ways when talking to their parents = Frustrations/Anger/Screams about how they don't understand them

Seeing a pattern here? The difference between getting angry out in life as opposed to on a computer/console is that you can vent your frustration out on another game or by winning. If frustrated about the bike, he'd either begin to cry, kick the bike or something totally different.

Teenagers are generally angry, it is a part of growing up (Puberty) but I doubt that games actually makes them MORE aggressive than normal. They get asked if they get angry when playing games, they think about it and say yes. What if the question was: "Do you get angry when something doesn't work out for you?" Well, yes. Of course it does. It's part of being human.

"Two thirds" they say?

Probably more like two out of three kids conducted in the whole "test" that really didn't understand what was going on.

Again I think of the whole Colgate/Crest scenario from the book "How to Lie with Statistics".

The linked article just shows that the creator of this study hates kids having any kind of technology.  I'm pretty sure that the kids opinion were made up.

And god dammit, Dennis really needs to take the stupid captcha crap off this site.

Video games cause aggression? The real question is what kind of aggression is it? Short term, long term, violent, non-violent? Even still, 'violent video games' aren't intended for the impressionable anyway. Just finished Condemned: Criminal Origins, and yes, I felt a bit aggressive after being killed by an uber-whatever-the-hell-it-is guy over seven times in a row. Point is, the targetted group has nothing major to do with the subject.

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Well of COURSE they feel more aggressive... They did something BEYOND sitting on their asses.

Why don't we ban running and walking? I hear it has the same effect as well - You know, that darndest thing called ADRENALINE.

Kids generally believe what they're told. The media and probably many of their parents are telling them on a regular basis that video games make them violent, so why wouldn't they believe it?

But just because other people's kids believe the tooth fairy is real doesn't mean it is real.

I haven't read the whole audit yet so maybe I missed it buy I don't see where it says kids "believe playing violent video games makes them more aggressive."  In fact, the word "aggressive" does not appear anywhere in the audit's 115 pages.

my friend's 13 year old brother said that too.

you know why?

he belivied what he heard his parents and teachers say. and I'm willing to bet money that the teahers and parents only belive that because the news media told them it was so.

this is a pretty big problem. most parents i talk to think that the Virginia tech shooting was linked to video games because all they saw was the first reports with jack thompson.

all this miss information hurts the game industry and gamers as well.

Sounds like the kids were brainwashed.

Hell, even I have questioned whether or not games could make me more aggressive. I strongly doubt that they do, but it would be nice if they did. Our capitalist society sort of requires it. These teens better not be too stupid to effing realize that they are SUPPOSED to have aggression in their teen years. It's NATURE!

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At least they note that that bullshit sensationalist media coverage could be a factor in this view.

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This just proves that stupid people who believe this tripe were once stupid children who believe this tripe.  Or another form of tripe (probably that rock and roll would condemn your soul to hell).

This a great example of an urban legend, something repeated often enough that it becomes defacto truth despite there being no evidence to support the claim...

I once heard a 14 year old say that, "drinking beer is bad for you."  I assume that the kids in this study, along with that alcohol-fearing kid I knew, are just parroting what they've heard from their parents and teachers.  Maybe the kids in this study were coached, or they're just a bunch of goody-goodys that said what they thought the adults wanted them to say.

If I'm getting payed, I'll say whatever kinda crazy shit the payer wants. Hell, I'll say that the planet is flat and that leprachauns invented air if you throw in another twenty. Who wouldn't? Money talks, shit walks.

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Are the Daily Fail and Telegraph both considered to be tabloid rags over in the UK?

Its funny if I read that: "Around two-thirds of older children agree that violence in games affects people’s behaviour outside the game".

Why am I finding nothing about the violence in video games causing "agression" instead of just changing your behavior outside the game.

I will admit, violent video games change my behavior outside the game also.  Violent video games make me more relaxed and a much more well behaved person.

 Did they ask if it changes their behavior, or other peoples?  I can just see it: "Yeah, I think video games affects other kids behaviors.  I've heard a lot of French people are more violent after playing."

 Also, brainwashing someone doesn't make you right.  I could claim that video games are the gateway into heaven, make a cult, and have all kinds of children agree with me...

its a shame teens get brainwashed by the media as much as, if not more than, adults.

its going to take awhile to get rid of the idea that games do this to people. as I was once told, if you say something loud enough and long enough, people tend to believe it, whether its true or not.

who are these kids? cant imagine any of friends ever agreeing to this when we were that young, more importantly they could have just as easily interviewed kids whose parents support the whole "video games are bad" cause. More importantly if these kids were smart enough to realize in the first place that video games were affecting their behaviour how come they aint smart enought to change their behaviour?

So they think they get more aggresive, so what? We never listened to kids before why should we start now, no wait we did, but that only ended with alot of women getting burnt at the stakes...

Besides the study seemed a little one sided, maybe they should have asked if they experienced positive/negative effects while playing and not use guiding questions.

Headline should read - "2/3rds of children believe what adults tell them"

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