{"id":32254,"date":"2013-01-21T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/looking-at-violent-video-games-again-some-more.html"},"modified":"2013-01-21T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:14:42","slug":"looking-at-violent-video-games-again-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/looking-at-violent-video-games-again-some-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking at violent video games (again, some more)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s everyone&#39;s favorite whipping boy, but when you look at the studies held to date, there remain a lot of problems in drawing solid, actionable conclusions from them, including questions like:<\/p>\n<p>a. The link between &quot;increased aggression&quot; (where found) and actual violent behavior.<br \/>b. The persistence\u00a0of long-term vs. short-term aggression effects.<br \/>c. The effects of short-term vs. long-term exposure to such video games (playing 20 minutes in a lab vs. playing multiple hours per day for weeks at a time).<br \/>d. Whether kids play violent video games because of aggressive predisposition or acculturation, vs. aggressive results coming from the games. Assuming, of course, that all kids behave the same way to the same stimulus and for the same reasons.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/18bsj6xgy7s94jpg\/fb.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5976781\/25-video-game-violence-studies-summarized'>25 Video Game Violence Studies, Summarized<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith video games so consistently a topic in the mass media&#8217;s examinations of the recent Sandy Hook shooting, we decided to take a look at the studies that try to determine what effect\u2014if any\u2014video gam&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Avm6a6T4ask' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s everyone&#39;s favorite whipping boy, but when you look at the studies held to date, there remain a lot of problems in drawing solid, actionable conclusions from them, including questions like: a. The link between &quot;increased aggression&quot; (where found) and actual violent behavior.b. The persistence\u00a0of long-term vs. short-term aggression effects.c. The effects of short-term vs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/looking-at-violent-video-games-again-some-more.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking at violent video games (again, some more)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7889,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/ah_yes_blaming.html","url_meta":{"origin":32254,"position":0},"title":"Ah, yes &#8230; blaming video games again","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Jul-05 8:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An excellent \"open letter\" to Sen. 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