Thursday, February 4, 2010

RJA #3a: Research Topic Exploration

I began research into my topic of psychological effects of video games in children initially in Google Scholar. So far in my analysis of what I have found, it appears that there are numerous articles and studies done that show increased aggressive behavior in children after they play violent video games. In continuing my research I plan to delve deeper and see how these levels compare to individuals that actually commit violent acts. My opinion at this moment is that despite video games causing an increase in aggressive thoughts, in order to cross that line of I think I can and I am doing is more greatly effected by other stimuli. It seems this is going to take a lot of research as the studies I have found have been pretty recent, and they all state that there has not been an adequate amount of studies done to make a solid decision on whether or not these video games are causing harmful psychological damage to our youth.


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