Video Games and Violence…
Posted on | May 4, 2008 |
Lawrence Kutner has authored a new book suggesting violent video games do not create violent children.
As the parent of three young children and a Director of Technology at an all boys school, this story feels good. Do you know of opposing research?
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May 5th, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
hey alex, most of the studies i’ve read say the same thing. video games *do not* create violent people.
however, there is some evidence that violent video games or movies stimulate people (not surprising)… so if you are *already predisposed* to aggression or violence, a violent video game might stimulate you to act it out. this phenomena only happens to a very small minority of people though. i can find some studies if you’re interested!
May 10th, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Alex:
I was at a conference in Princeton, NJ about a week ago. We saw John Black speaking about video games and learning. We also saw Craig Anderson Department of Psychology, Iowa State talking about violent video games and if they are desensitizing. I don’t know if you’ll get much out of it, but a bunch of people live blogged. The Live Blog is posted at Kevin Jarrett’s blog. You can click on the link to get there.
I also saw this piece from an Australian website pointing to video games not necessarily a bad thing.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23670311-5014117,00.html
Hope you find something useful.
Ann
May 15th, 2008 @ 5:28 am
Alex, if ‘violent video games do not create violent children’, why do we think that creative learning games are able to develop creative learners? Is there a dichotomy here, or is the psychology so different for the two ‘extremes’…?