The behavioural effects of video games
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13726738&source=hptextfeature
The upshot of both studies is that video games are like any other medium. Feed the user with aggressive thoughts and you risk making him aggressive. Feed him with the milk of human kindness and the opposite will probably happen. No great surprise, perhaps. But a salutary reminder both that the older generation should not rush to judgment on youthful habits it does not understand, and that the medium is not always the message.
- Economist
Useful links:
www.psychology.iastate.edu/~dgentile
www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/profile208149.html
www.psy.lmu.de/soz/personen/mitarbeiter/osswald/index.html
Interesting article. From my point of view, the twig is bent so shall the tree grow. I would like to see a research done on what effect more complex games have on people.
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