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Models For Aggressive Behavior: The Attributes Of Violent Characters In Popular Video Games - Article Review

Researches on Violent Video Games are Irrelevant

Second to the movies industry, video games industry is on a rapid development with billions of dollars made. Like the movies industry, Americans are increasingly concerned about violence, gore, and antisocial behaviors feature in games. In fact, violent video games have been constantly blamed for school shootouts. For example, not long after the Northern Illinois University shooting occurred, Jack Thompson, an attorney who strongly believes violent video games have a strong correlation with violent acts, appeared on Fox News and tried to draw a connection between the shooting and violent video games . Also, in a current going murder trial, the murderer, Andrew Reid Lackey, claimed videogame to be the cause of his action. Lackey is charged for stabbing, shooting and gouging out the eye of an 80 year-old man, Charles Newman, during an attempted robbery. Facing the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison, Lackey used the "violent video games made me do it" defense for his action. The trial is currently underway at the Limestone County Courthouse in Alabama. While playing violent video games may temporary increase player’s level of aggression, do playing violent video games contribute to antisocial behavior in the society? In the article, Models for Aggressive Behavior: The Attributes of Violent Characters in Popular Video Games , the author examined various types of experiments such as survey, experimental research, and more complicated studies were relevant to prove that videogame causes violent behaviors. In conclusion, the article stated that while a number of experimental studies have linked video game playing and aggressive thoughts and behavior, few have examined potentially problematic contextual features associated with this violence, such as attributes related to violent perpetrators, which may contribute to these aggressive responses. I totally agree with the author.
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