Road Rage a Bigger Factor than Guns in Game Violence
Bench, 8-Apr-09 »
A new study by Simon Goodson and Sarah Pearson of the University of Huddersfield has discovered that it appears Driving games, not FPS games, cause the most increase in player aggression. The study involved 30 gamers playing through a bunch of games on the Xbox 360 while monitoring brain activity and other physiological changes such as heart rate and breathing. The surprising results showed the biggest change from the Driving Game (Project Gotham Racing was used), while the smallest change was from the First Person Shooter (the FPS game hasn't been revealed). It's the first study to not just generalize video games as being violent, but to also investigate on a current generation console which genre of games provoke the biggest emotional response.
"Surprisingly the results showed that the driving game made participants more agitated and aggressive than the game with graphic violence. Given the high levels of realism in modern games a re-evaluation of the relationship between videogames and violence is needed.", Goodson and Pearson stated.
A new study by Simon Goodson and Sarah Pearson of the University of Huddersfield has discovered that it appears Driving games, not FPS games, cause the most increase in player aggression. The study involved 30 gamers playing through a bunch of games on the Xbox 360 while monitoring brain activity and other physiological changes such as heart rate and breathing. The surprising results showed the biggest change from the Driving Game (Project Gotham Racing was used), while the smallest change was from the First Person Shooter (the FPS game hasn't been revealed). It's the first study to not just generalize video games as being violent, but to also investigate on a current generation console which genre of games provoke the biggest emotional response.
"Surprisingly the results showed that the driving game made participants more agitated and aggressive than the game with graphic violence. Given the high levels of realism in modern games a re-evaluation of the relationship between videogames and violence is needed.", Goodson and Pearson stated.
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| Category: | Gaming News |
| Posted: | 8-Apr-09 6:24:46 pm |
| Author: | Bench |