Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailIt’s a topic that has been widely debated amongst the scientific community - do violent video games make players more aggressive in real life? In a series of experiments with more than 3,000 participants, the researchers showed that video games don’t ‘prime’ players to behave in certain ways. In another study, participants were asked to play two combat games - one that had realistic characters, and one that did not. Dr Pendle said: “We found that the priming of violent concepts, as measured by how many violent concepts appeared in the word fragment completion task, was not detectable. "The findings suggest that there is no link between these kinds of realism in games and the kind of effects that video games are commonly thought to have on their players.”

Source: Daily Mirror January 18, 2018 13:21 UTC