Violent Video Games Relation to Violent Behavior

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With all these violence that had been going on within 2011 and 2012, the media question the safety of children playing violence game. Can the shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook and Columbine be a link to violence video game? An article from Parenting.com, Sasha Emmons, 2013, discuss about the December’s horrific massacre in Newtown questions about guns in media and their connection to real-life violence. They brought up the topic about the killer of Sandy Hook, Adam Lanza play the violence game Call of Duty. They question how much should parents focus on their child concerning on their child aggressive copycat behavior (Emmons, 2013). Parents all over the world are concern about their children watching and playing violence game. Some parent report about their child behavior. Should they worries when their child would image that house hold supply to be a gun, going around the house making shooting noise?
Parenting.com brought up research on video games to argue about. They mention that a first-person shooter game is more serious than watching violence on T.V. A recent meta-analysis in 2010 of 12 earlier studies found a link between times spent playing video games and violent behavior later in life (Emmons, 2013). They mention the study that was taken place in 2004 from Journal of Adolescence showed that video games are more desensitized than TV. That the children that play violence game are more interactive than watching, their physical activity are different. However, they mention the other studies that failed to link between violent video game exposure and aggression (Emmons, 2013). They brought up a good point that most of the studies had focused on normal kids, the study does not consist of children with e...

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Emmons, Sasha. "Is Media Violence Damaging to Kids?" CNN. Cable News Network, 21 Feb. 2013. Web. 28 Nov. 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/living/parenting-kids-violence-media/index.html Ferguson, Christopher J. "Video Games Didn't Cause Newtown Rampage." CNN. Cable News Network, 20 Feb. 2013. Web. 30 Nov. 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/20/opinion/ferguson-adam-lanza/index.html Bushman, Ph.D, Brad . "Do Violent Video Games Increase Aggression?" (n.d.): n. pag. Psychology Today, 27 Jan. 2013. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-psyched/201201/do-violent-video-games-increase-aggression Vieira, Jr., Ph.D, Edward T. "Simmons College." Violent Video Games Can Hinder Development, Simmons Study Finds : Press Releases : Press Room : About Simmons :. N.p., 4 Apr. 2011. Web. 29 Nov. 2013.
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