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On the other hand... >Porn and video game addiction are leading to 'masculinity crisis', says Stanford prison experiment psychologist http://www.independent.c

• jfnjewkf 11y ago
  That's probably the worst article that I've read in the last year.
  • notsony 11y ago
    Meanwhile the opposite from another psychologist: >Research on exposure to television and movie violence suggests that playing violent video games will increase aggressive behavior. A meta-analytic review of the video-game research literature reveals that violent video games increase aggressive behavior in children and young adults. Experimental and nonexperimental studies with males and females in laboratory and field settings support this conclusion. Analyses also reveal that exposure to violent video games increases physiological arousal and aggression-related thoughts and feelings. Playing violent video games also decreases prosocial behavior. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/12/5/353.abstract http://pss.sagepub.com/content/12/5/353.abstract
    • A_COMPUTER 11y ago
      Even exposure to a even just a picture of a gun may cause an increase in aggression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_effect I have wondered, assuming the effect is real, if the "problem" of media causing violence is even socially solvable if we are psychologically this sensitive.