Illusions in Games
Different research states that video games make people violent but other research states video games have nothing to do with violence. What side to believe? You can believe any side you want to but I will state mine with an open mind and complete truth. I am a Girl Gamer and I play violent games. Call of Duty of all sorts, Fable, Legend of Zelda, Okami, Smite, League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch being the main ones I play. They are all semi-violent or violent games and I have never tried to do anything to harm anyone when I rage and die in-game, stay up all night playing, just barely getting to that checkpoint and die, or have been on a losing streak the entire day. I do not seek to destroy anything or hurt anyone after those experiences. Sure I’ve thought about it but I know i’d never do it, I at least have that control. I have never thrown a keyboard, mouse, or controller at the wall or the floor and that goes to show that people can control the rage inside them and reflect, some just choose not to and resort to destroying or hurting themselves or others to vent. Games are rage inducing believe me I know, I’ve played my fair share. Onto the research sides of both stories we go!
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 one study, participants played a game where they had to either be a car avoiding collisions, or a mouse avoiding being caught by a cat
After the game, the players were shown images, such as a bus or a dog, and asked to label them as either a vehicle or an animal.
Dr David Pendle, who worked on the study, said: “If players are ‘primed’ through immersing themselves in the concepts of the game, they should be able to categorise the objects associated with this game more quickly in the real world once the game had concluded.
“Across the two games we didn’t find this to be the case. Participants who played a car-themed game were no quicker at categorising vehicle images, and indeed in some cases their reaction time was significantly slower.”
In another study, participants were asked to play two combat games – one that had realistic characters, and one that did not.
Following the game, players were asked to complete a word-association puzzle.
While the researchers expected participants who had played the realistic game to choose more violent word associations, this wasn’t the case.
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.
There is no real proof that videogames make people violent, actually, it makes them less because it lets them let out their anger in another form than instead of on people or other objects. It focuses it on a game rather than reality. I do not believe videogames make people violent and if you’d like to challenge me to that, try me. Ill be waiting.
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