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Violence & Video Games
Violence & Video Games
Violent video games do not cause mass shootings: there is no relationship between aggressive behavior and time spent on violent video games.
- Oxford Internet Institute: Przybylski & Weinstein 19 (cited)
- Researchers have found no relationship between aggressive behavior in teenagers (n=1004) and the amount of time spent playing violent video games.
- “The study is one of the most definitive to date, using a combination of subjective and objective data to measure teen aggression and violence in games. Unlike previous research on the topic, which relied heavily on self-reported data from teenagers, the study used information from parents and carers to judge the level of aggressive behavior in their children.
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics: Dahl & Dellavigna 09
- Causal evidence on the effect of exposure to media violence on violent crime, using data from violent films
- Exposure to violent movies has three main effects on violent crime:
- It significantly reduces violent crime in the evening on the day of exposure
- by an even larger percent, it reduces violent crime during the night hours following exposure
- It has no significant impact in the days and weeks following the exposure.