Does playing video games make people behave aggressively?

Question

I'd like to know what people think rather than about any special studies. So there is NO single "right" answer.
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Thank you to everyone who took time to answer.

Answer 1

I think that violent video games or violent images desensitize people to violence. For example, 50 years ago people would be shocked to see a dead body shown on television. Now, the tv news shows bodies being pulled out of VT and people just expect the images.

One cannot hear and see things over and over without desensitizing results. Hear bad language repeatedly - you become accustomed to it and may even start using it yourself without realizing it.

Even the armed forces use "first person shooter" video games to prepare and desensitize troops to battle.

I'm not sure how anyone can honestly say it doesn't have an effect.

Answer 2

It depends on if we are considering the "real world" or just in the video game. While within the game, yes, without a question. As an on-line gamer, I do run into many people who are very aggressive or at least behave in a "socially unacceptable" manner.

I do not think that this carries out into the real world in most cases. When it does, there are usually other issues that are the root cause. In general I think they allow people to blow off steam more than create it.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It has a different effect on different people. People who already have a tendency to be aggressive will be more likely to act agressively by playing large amounts of violent video games. It just helps bring out what is already there. Most people will have no problems, but it is the few who are already predisposed to violence who become disinhibited by the violent games that gets media attention.

Answer 5

I think it totally depends on the person and how well they can seperate fantisy from reality. I work with students of all abilities and the one black and white case that stands out is of a student with aspbergers syndrome, ASD. He loves video games and loves to play them with his friends. But when they are over he will stay in the mode of "evil doer" or " mario" whoever he was playing for the rest of the day. When you ask him why that is he says it is because "if they do it on tv it has to be real". Kinda a scary answer if you ask me and it sure makes you wonder how many other people out there think that way.

Answer 6

I don't think so. I've been playing video games since I was a young kid, in the early 1980s. All kinds of games, racing, fighting, flying, puzzle, etc. There were times, years ago, that I'd get mad and break a controller, but there were also times I'd get mad at my parents and punch a wall or get mad at my gf and smash the phone, etc. All that was around when I was 14, 20 years ago and it didn't last that long.

I still play video games of all kinds, blood, killing, guts, gore, etc, racing, whatever, and if I lose it is no big deal. I don't get mad anymore, for the most part, no matter what happens. I might get frustrated when some stupid housewife pulls up on the side of me in her big SUV, she thinks makes her tougher or whatnot, and it blocks my view so I don't know whether I can pull out or not. A lot of idiots do that, when you pull up to a stop sign and they pull up on the right side of you and edge out in front, blocking your view and stopping you from knowing if it is safe to pull out. But I don't get all mad, just frustrated. If my roommate's dog steals half my sandwich out of my hand, same thing, I'll get po'd, maybe yell at him, but that's about it. However, my old roommate, he's 36, still smashes holes in the walls, slams doors, etc. Someone parked in his spot and he slammed the door open and close so much it broke the frame of the door. Though some people do things like that for attention, most things people do is for attention, as selfish as they are, but to say video games make people behave aggressively, would be wrong, in my opinion.

Though it depends on how you define aggressively. Sometimes when I go to a bar to have some fun and drinks, I'll have some girls acting to aggressively towards me, trying to get with me. I'm not aggressive, though sometimes when I work on a computer for someone, I wish I was more aggressive and charged more money for the work I do.

Again, depends on which definition. One I found on dictionary.com is: vigorously energetic, esp. in the use of initiative and forcefulness: an aggressive salesperson

If you mean, do video games make people more violently aggressive, I still say no. Though what might be the case.... the video game won't hit back, so the person losing gets mad and hits something to take out their frustration. The video game machine is an inanimate object and the person has an issue with the fact that something inanimate could 'beat (outsmart)' them. How many people walk by a railing, catch&tear their sleeve on it and will say, "stupid railing" ? Yea I think the reason that people throw controllers and get all mad is a control issue. They have trouble controlling their feelings, and esp. since the game machine isn't going to hit them back, they're going to smash the controller or hit something.

Seriously though, I'll go from a violent video game, to a walk through the woods where I will whisper to butterflies and tickle mother nature with a feather from mother goose's tail, roll around and frolic with bambie.. and after a while of doing that, I'll go back to kick some more alien butt in a video game.

Unfortunately, plenty of people will claim that violent video games make the people that play them more violent. But what about these stupid cartoons I see on tv. My roommate has a daughter who is almost two and occassionaly she'll smack me or him and she certainly didn't learn it from us. But then I see a cartoon on TV, and it's got baby characters in it, but then the kids in the cartoon, the sister smacks her brother or he smacks his friend or something. I think that is where she gets it from. These cartoons are supposed to be for children and children mimic what they see, so what do the kids have to hit each other in the cartoon?

Again, though, I say no, video games don't make people behave more (violently) aggressive.

Answer 7

First of all I'd like to point out that violent games can and frequently will influense one's behavior. However, it depends on the individual, really.

I suppose it has to do with the maturity level, not to be confused with one's age, of the particular person. To me, it's only a game. My older brother never acts irrationally to any games. My younger brother will get quiet upset and yell that the game, (the programed computer >*as I roll my eyes*), that it is cheating.

Then there are those freaks who live there lives to portray their games. They have no sense of reality.

Answer 8

I played animal crossing the other day, when i finished i did'nt bury trees and go fishing like in the game. some people are unlucky enough to have violent tempers and not control them. And there are those other aggressive people who control their anger. playing these games maybe , people can pretend to shoot or maim. maybe games are a good way of releasing those pressures.

Answer 9

I don't think so. I play loads of video games, and am in a clan that has been playing together since Ghost Recon 1. We enjoy playing the games together, and I think we're all able to seperate the fantasy of games from reality.

Answer 10

I think that society wants something to blame things on. Have you not watched cartoons lately. There has been violence on Bugs Bunny since the beginning of time. I think there are certain things we should block children from playing when it comes to video games, but I don't think we should blame aggressive behavior on it.