tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post7607785346555204052..comments2024-03-27T03:22:41.073-07:00Comments on Psych Your Mind: Video Games and Violence: The Debate Rages OnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08931064542755278772noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-35287074664784740142013-05-03T05:26:11.479-07:002013-05-03T05:26:11.479-07:00Glad you dug it !
So how do we get people to chang...Glad you dug it !<br />So how do we get people to change their minds and to recognize that kids and youngsters are influenced by all this quite new technologies ? How should we push that conversation in our own little worlds?<br />t rex videos for kidshttp://tutitu.tv/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-5541841471138769902012-06-11T17:32:11.788-07:002012-06-11T17:32:11.788-07:00Anderson's meta-analysis mainly looks at work ...Anderson's meta-analysis mainly looks at work he has done, as well as his former students and co-authors. He only reviews people in his camp. Pretty biased!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-21517177869533639472012-01-26T04:02:59.431-08:002012-01-26T04:02:59.431-08:00Many of our teens today are fund of playing video ...Many of our teens today are fund of playing video games not knowing that it brings a big impact concerning their behavior towards things around. A parent should be more responsible in raising their kids and they <a href="http://www.militaryschools411.com/" rel="nofollow">should embrace programs</a> that focus in the welfare of the kids.doloresnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-54382145843458866132011-06-03T09:26:35.023-07:002011-06-03T09:26:35.023-07:00Thanks for your comment Aaron. I'd say that th...Thanks for your comment Aaron. I'd say that the thing about the Anderson et al. review that sets it apart from the books by Freedman (2002) or Trend (2007) is that the Anderson et al. review had to go through a rigorous review process where it was evaluated by anonymous experts in the field. After careful vetting by these experts, Psychological Bulletin (the journal) also published rebuttals by other experts raising some of the issues you raised here.<br /><br />To see Anderson et al's responses to these issues (including the broom issue), you can go here: http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/2010-2014/10bra.pdf<br /><br />Thanks for reading!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08931064542755278772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-8278651992859548272011-06-03T07:19:29.804-07:002011-06-03T07:19:29.804-07:00I did a lot of research on this topic, and found a...I did a lot of research on this topic, and found an endless spiral of appeals to authority on the part of believers in the media violence hypothesis. The results are not unequivocal (as you put it). Far from it. Try reading: Freedman (2002) and Trend (2007) for an alternative explanation of what you are looking at. Anderson is by far the /best/ media violence researcher, but is guilty of employing ockram's broom in his articles, and shamefully, in his review articles as well. (Okcram's broom is where you brush important counter-evidence under the rug, thereby making your argument appear more convincing.)Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729098761972771273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-62596228216431590522011-06-01T14:14:07.906-07:002011-06-01T14:14:07.906-07:00Thanks Michael! I look forward to reading these. A...Thanks Michael! I look forward to reading these. Also I love the label "incapacitation effect!" Indeed it appears associations between video game playing and actual crime are more complicated than they are sometimes made to be.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08931064542755278772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6451967208270832502.post-33544623876311096532011-06-01T12:37:13.101-07:002011-06-01T12:37:13.101-07:00Now even economists are getting into the debate. ;...Now even economists are getting into the debate. ;-)<br /><br />Michael R. Ward, “Video Games and Crime,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 29(2) (April 2011) 261-273<br /><br />Finds crime falls with more video game play.<br /><br />Michael R. Ward, “Video Games and Adolescent Fighting,” Journal of Law and Economics, 53(3) (August 2010) 611-628<br /><br />Finds that the raw correlation is due to "selection bias" and that the conditional correlation is negligible.<br /><br />A. Scott Cunningham, Benjamin Engelstätter, and Michael R. Ward, “Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime,” April, 2011. < http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1804959><br /><br />Finds support for an aggression effect of violent video games leading to violent crime, but a larger "incapacitation" effect in which time spent playing video games diminishes crime.Michael Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08041701258028777913noreply@blogger.com