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: GamePolitics.comStudy Examines Effect of Ruminating over Violent Games
By pete_gallagher
Results from a recent study appear to indicate that playing violent videogames could increase aggression a full day later, but only when certain conditions were instituted.
'Violent Video Games Cause an Increase in Aggression Long After the Game Has Been Turned Off' (link) was authored by Brad Bushman and Bryan Gibson, the former a professor at Ohio State University and Amsterdam's VU University and the latter a professor at Central Michigan University. The study was conducted on 126 college students.
The flip of a coin decided whether participants would play a violent or nonviolent game for 20 minutes. The violent games were Mortal Kombat: vs. DC Universe, Resistance: Fall of Man, and Resident Evil 5, while Guitar Hero, Gran Turismo 5, and Shaun White Snowboarding made up the nonviolent entries.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).
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