Video games can be bad for you?? REALLY??

   Summary

     Recent studies have shown that playing video games has increased aggression in the players and may last up to 24 hours after the game is finished. Playing these games causes the user to think about bad things in their head and it causes them to have that aggresion towards other people. These studies were tested by having college students play 6 different video games for 20 minutes each. Some of the games were intense, aggressive games, but others were not. One of the aggressive games was Mortal Kombat, and the non-aggressive game was Guitar Hero. The players were being tested, because half of them were told to think about their performance of the game for the next 24 hours and see if there was anything they could do to improve. This theory was used in order to see if their behavior changed at all. The studied showed that men who played the aggressive game and thought about it for the next 24 hours had an increased intensity level than those who did not. Also, this study showed that women who played the aggressive game did not have a change of behavior. This was the very first study ever to show how video games can increase aggression in people, and this intensity usually lasts for over a long period of time.

Response

Playing video games is not a huge hobby of mine, but my older brother, Tony, asks me to play with him sometimes, and I really don't mind it. The only bad thing is that I am not the best at playing these games, so that makes me want to play more so I can improve.  I have grown up with Tony and he is actually a very intense, aggressive person. Sometimes I feel that he does not know how strong he really is, and that he should probably take it down a notch when doing certain things. haha. I am anxious to see what he says about this article, because knowing him he won't think it is true. He usually plays a lot of football games, and those aren't so intense, but I can definately see where these studies are coming from. Sometimes my brother will play the hard core games and I can see a difference in his attitude, because he gets mad at himself and wants to hurt something. ahhh..!! Although, Tony is a very nice person and would never do something like that!