 | Study finds stable personalities unaffected by violent gamesApril 3rd, 2007 |
Today came word of word a new study on games and violence or aggression. This one seems to reach some reasonable conclusions, too:
The authors propose that gamers fall into two groups: stable personalities, and those with emotional states that are susceptible to being influenced by game play. Within the latter group, the response to violent games largely depends on the emotional states of the gamers when they begin play. Angry gamers will cool off, calm gamers will get agitated. They also note that only two of the cases of rising anger reached levels that would be considered cause for concern, suggesting that dangerous levels of anger were rarely triggered by gaming.
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