Video Game Addiction and Video Game Violence
Well once you do, don’t be surprised if you find yourself suddenly laying down some ground rules on the types of games that come into your home, and the hours spent playing them. From the slapstick of pre-school games, to the graphic violence of some teen games, the video game culture often relies on violence for entertainment. And for good reason. “Violence is inherently attention grabbing, or seems to be inherently attention grabbing for most people”, explains Craig Anderson, with the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University and one of the authors of “The Influence of Media Violence on Youth” published by the American Psychological Society. Read more