Are video games good or bad for today’s youth? What a question!
Violent video games have long been hypothesized to increase violent behavior, yet no real evidence has been found to show that they actually do.
Teasing out violent video game exposure as a cause of actual violence is tough given that TV shows, movies, social media and the local news all celebrate violent acts daily. Celebrate might sound like the wrong word, however, a study of digital media found that the average American will witness 200,000 acts of violence on TV by the age of 18. A 1990s study of television violence found that 75% of acts resulted in no physical harm, no psychological harm in 90% and no question about morality in 87%, plus, the bad guys got away with it the majority of the time. So, sussing out the effects of video games on a youth already desensitized to violent acts by other…
