No evidence to support link between violent video games and behavior

[Fireball]

People who think there's no relation between violence and video games have never watched gamers 'discussing' the relative merits of PlayStation vs Xbox.

Boru

Fisticuffs were involved, I'll wager. 

[bennyboy]

I disagree with the study. In my opinion, phone games are so addictive, that they are likely to lead to anti-social behavior. Not because the games themselves contain violent content which is imitated, mind you, but because they are likely to hamper the social development of children who play them too much.

[paulpablo]

I think there's more important factors that make someone violent, how you have been treated by your parents for example.


Just from my experience, children copy off what they see to an extent, even if just in a mild way.  I remember we used to watch wrestling, then we'd go to school and wrestle.  I'm sure probably everyone knows someone in some way who tried to copy off that show Jackass when they were younger.

I think it would be really difficult to do a study on, all this study has found is that there's no evidence to support the link but absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

I wouldn't place video games as being high on the things that influence very violent behavior in my opinion though, just that it seems logical to me that EVERYTHING a child watches has a link to their behavior.