Kids 'Unaffected By Game Violence' Says Study

Via Game|Life, an article in the Syndey Morning Herald discusses a new study indicating most children are unaffected by videogame violence. Though the study did indicate that children already predisposed to violence or neurotic behavior were over-stimulated by these games, most children showed no difference in behavior as a result of game play. "The study monitored the behavior of children from 10 schools in eastern and southern metropolitan Melbourne before and after playing the violent video game Quake II for 20 minutes, Swinburne's Professor Grant Devilly said. Prof Devilly said only children predisposed to aggression and more reactive to their environments changed their behavior after playing and of those only some showed more aggression."

Duh

[grub]

I committed most of my murders before I got into gaming.

Re:Can I get a ...

[Rude Turnip]

"Whoa why the hostility?"

Probably from playing too many violent video games...just a guess.

Re:there might be a difference

[voice_of_all_reason]

Hey, that's not funny. A grue killed my whole family.

Re:Can I get a ...

[Cylix]

I call BS...

I played a few MMO's, still play eve and what have you.

The worst is when I started playing WoW, fell in with chinese guys, started grinding and just massing large amounts of gold.

I hit rock bottom... nothing but grinding and gold collecting for weeks.

Now, I'm grinding away with this damned employment.

Just grinding and collecting cash.

Damn video games... I could have been a hippy!

Re:there might be a difference

[onion2k]

I've never met anyone who said the brutal violence of GTA is a bad thing.

Well, noone who lived long enough to argue their point anyway.

Re:Finally! Violent behaviour is the Parents Fault

[Anonymous Coward]

My kids isn't violent. Shuddup or I'll kill you. Siriusly. I'll kill you. An TV is good. Whats worng with you. Kids will be kids. Couple broke bones is nothing its just part of growin up. Im proud of my kids. They grow up just like me.

Did you see the Monopoly study?

[MrTester]

A new study points to evidence that kids who play Monopoly more than 20 minutes a day during the "critical years" causes them to become raging Capitalists.
The study looks at more than 200 of the top entrepreneurs of the last 20 years and found that 90% of them played Monolpoly as children. The remaining 10% all turned out to be pinko communists.
In a related study, it was found that Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon and Hitler all played chess as small children. Bans on chess clubs are being considered in 38 states to prevent the rise of further military dictators.

More at 11.

Re:In other news...

[rackhamh]

oops, I meant to say "20 minutes," not "20 miles." Obviously I'd be making a different point in that case. :P

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Re:Can I get a ...

[orgelspieler]

I think year of playing Quake is more likely to turn you into a pasty, twitchy geek instead of Charles Manson.