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The Influence Of Violent Video Games

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There has been an ongoing debate on whether or not there is a relationship between violent video games and engaging in violent acts. The majority of best-selling games involve frequent acts of violence as the central gameplay theme such as; Call of Duty, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and Battlefield. In today 's media, we see acts of violence everywhere. I have personally seen people blame violent video games for recent school shootings that have occurred. One of the biggest question in our society at the moment is, do violent video games have a long-term effect on people, or are there other contributing factors that lead to such violence? This is an important question because youth violence is a public health issue in the United States. When doing experimental studies of violence in relation to violent video games, experimenters will typically use nonviolent games as a control group, that way if there is an increase in aggression …show more content…

One possibility for any aggression that is seen after playing a violent video game could be due to priming that occurs from the video game. Ferguson, Olson, Kutner, and Warner (2014) state that it is not clear if violent video games are a factor in long-term youth aggression. Hundreds of studies have examined violent video games, focusing on the potential outcomes of playing violent video games. Even though there is a lot of attention put on playing violent video games and its cause on aggressive behavior, there is little research on what leads youth the play such games, or who plays them (DeCamp, 2017). The child could already have aggressive tendencies before even being introduced to playing violent video games so it is hard to say whether or not playing these types of video games could cause the aggressive

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