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"Surprise" - Official Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Live-Action Trailer

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The official Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2 live action trailer, directed by Guy Ritchie, takes you into the high-speed world of near-future weaponry. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 arrives globally on 11.13.12. Pre-order now and receive the bonus Nuketown 2025 multiplayer map and access to the Double XPLaunch Weekend!

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Video Games Don't Cause Violent Behavior Video

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Video Games Don't Cause Violent Behavior Video

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Video Games Don't Cause Violent Behavior

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Do Video Games Cause Violence? 9 Pros and Cons

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Proponents say playing violent video games causes more aggression. Opponents say the games are a convenient scapegoat for real-life violence.

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Fans of video games have spent decades insisting that there is no causal link between playing violent titles and engaging in violent real-world behavior. New data supports their assertions.

A the scholars behind Dutch study published in the April 2017 edition of the "Journal of Youth and Adolescence" called "Video Gaming and Children's Psychosocial Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study" studied 194 children at two periods separated by one year. Their findings should be generally comforting for parents who have concerns about letting their kids spend hours playing first-person shooters.

"Gaming at time one was associated with increases in emotion problems," the study says, before adding that "violent gaming was not associated with psychosocial changes. Cooperative gaming was not associated with changes in prosocial behavior. Finally, competitive gaming was associated with decreases in prosocial behavior, but only among children who played video games with high frequency."

In its conclusion, the authors of the study also argued that "video games did not seem to pose harm for most domains of children's psychosocial development." Although it warned parents to be "particularly attentive to potential increases in children's internalizing problems as a result of video game playing," it did not find any evidence that violent video games were especially harmful.

The researchers did point out, however, that "this field would benefit greatly from validated measures that quantify or categorize the types of social and emotional processes being activated by different games and game types, and that accurately measure the social environment of video game sessions."

In a recent interview with Salon, author Patrick Markey made it clear that he believes the concerns over video games are misplaced moralizing.

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Actually, violent video games don't create violent children, study says

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Fans of video games have spent decades insisting that there is no causal link between playing violent titles and engaging in violent real-world behavior. New data supports their assertions. A the scholars behind Dutch study published in the April 2017 edition of the "Journal of Youth and Adolescence" called "Video Gaming and Children's Psychosocial Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study" studied 194 children at two periods separated by one year.

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In my opinion, I don't think video game violence makes our youth less sensitive and causes them to commit acts of violence themselves. One reason I think this is because there are other sources like TV shows and movies that show a lot more realistic violence than video games. Kids know that the violence that is in the video games they are playing is simulated and isn't real because the violence is animated, but in movies and shows, the violence is actually acted out by humans, which might provide a greater influence. Games like Pac-Man and Mario have the player kill monsters, but TV shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead have a lot more violent scenes. According to the article Violence in the News, "increasingly horrifying and graphic pictures are shown daily in the news from the current conflicts." If we are so worried about kids seeing violence in their video games, then we should also hide them from the news and the TV. In the salon.com article, it says that after a Dutch study involving 194 children who played video games was conducted, the researchers concluded that "video games did not seem to pose harm for most domains of children's psychosocial development" and had no evidence that deemed violent video games harmful. I also think that violent video games help reduce stress and blow steam off. This might be why media uses violence to advertise video games because boys will be boys and gravitate towards exciting action filled games. For example, the Call of Duty Black Ops II Trailer was full of guns and also some humor.

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Violence in the News - National Crime Prevention Council

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A lot of attention is given to the affects of violent movies, cartoons, and video games on children, but . . .