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> I am old enough to remember in the 1990's that a lot of people believed that video games promoted violence. Did that lobby actually achieve anything? Like, o
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> I am old enough to remember in the 1990's that a lot of people believed that video games promoted violence.
Did that lobby actually achieve anything? Like, one peer reviewed study that demonstrate causality?
It's been what, 30 years now.
- pjc50 5y agoVaries per jurisdiction; some games have "green blood" in Germany, for example. > Like, one peer reviewed study that demonstrate causality? Evidence is only weakly relevant to policy.
- weberer 5y agoThere have been multiple peer reviewed studies that show that violent video games increase aggressive behavior. Here's a meta-analysis: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/40/9882.full.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/40/9882.full.pdf