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ox.ac.uk
Violent video games found not to be associated with adolescent aggression | Oxford University
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, have found <strong>no relationship between aggressive behaviour in teenagers and the amount of time spent playing violent video games</strong>. ... The study used nationally representative data from British teens and their parents alongside ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The contagious impact of playing violent video games on aggression: Longitudinal evidence - PMC
<strong>Cross‐sectional correlational studies typically show a positive relationship between the amount of violent video game play and aggression in real‐world contexts</strong> (e.g., Gentile, Lynch, Linder, & Walsh, 2004; Krahé & Möller, 2004).
yvpc.sph.umich.edu
Do Video Games Influence Violent Behavior? - Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center
Results indicated that <strong>children who played more violent video games early in a school year changed to see the world in a more aggressive way and also changed to become more verbally and physically aggressive later in the school year.</strong>
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magazine.wsu.edu
The evidence that video game violence leads to real-world aggression | Washington State Magazine | Washington State University
The Dartmouth analysis drew on 24 studies involving more than 17,000 participants and found that “<strong>playing violent video games is associated with increases in physical aggression over time in children and teens</strong>,” according to a Dartmouth press release describing the study, which was published ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society
This pattern of findings further suggests that links reported in the literature might be influenced by publication bias, selective reporting, or an artefact of unobserved or hidden moderators, as has been previously suspected [45,78]. We argue that this study speaks to the key question of whether adolescents’ violent video game play has a measurable effect on real-world aggressive behaviour. On the basis of our evidence, the answer is no.
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pnas.org
Metaanalysis of the relationship between violent video game play and physical aggression over time | PNAS
A controversy has developed over the relation of violent video game play and aggression (1–4). Whereas the majority of those who conduct research on this topic argue that playing such games increases aggressive behavior, a vocal minority has argued that the relation of game play and real-world aggressive behavior is at best overstated and at worst spurious. The controversy has had important real-world implications. In 2011, the US Supreme Court struck down a California statute designed to limit purchases and rentals of extremely violent video games by children (5).
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