1. Effect of violent video
games
By: Alejandro Guerrero
Orcutt Academy High School
Frosh Core
March 1, 2013
2. • A new Ohio State University study
shows that playing violent video games
can make people more aggressive over
time, but the report’s co-author said it
is impossible to link such games to
violent criminal behavior like the recent
Sandy Hook Elementary School
shootings
3. • The media has speculated that Adam Lanza
spent a lot of his time cooped up in a basement
playing violent video games such as “Call of
Duty.” And over the past few weeks authorities
have uncovered more and more evidence
confirming that the 20-year-old behind the
horrific shooting rampage in
Newtown, Connecticut, was obsessed with these
bloody games.
4. • The Hartford Courant reported that
“police found thousands of dollars worth
of graphically violent video games” in the
home Lanza shared with his mother.
5. • Even though video games can
improve a player's manual dexterity
and computer literacy, violent video
games affect children's thoughts and
behaviors because video games can
cause people to engage in fights and
they cause people to be more
aggressive.
7. Survey
ShowS…
19% strongly agree
12%
agree
32% 15% neither agree or
disagree
disagree
22%
strongly disagree
Data from self-generated survey.
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8. • Out of 60 people that took the
survey, 37% think that video games
cause players to be more
aggressive, 31% think that it
doesn’t, and 32% neither agree or
disagree
9. “In a first person shooter game the player has the same
visual perspective as the killer. The video games also
reward players after a certain amount of kills”. It’s
easier for the player to identify themselves with the
shooter. When someone gets rewarded it increases the
behaviors frequency. (Brad Bushman)
10. Players identify themselves with the
character.
20
15
10
5
Players identify
0 themselves with the
character.
Data from self-generated survey.
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11. • Out of 60 people that took the
survey, 6 strongly agree, 20
agree, 17 neither agree or
disagree, 9 disagree, and 8 strongly
disagree.
12. Violent media is not the only factor that
contributes to aggression and
violence, but at least it is one we can do
something about” by controlling the media
that children are exposed to play video
games.
13. Work cited
• Anderson, Dr. Craig
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/11/03/healthmag.viole
nt.video.kids/index.html.
• Bushman, Brad J. "ITHP." 2010. The effects of violent video
games. Do they affect our behavior? 1 January 2013.
<http://www.ithp.org/articles/violentvideogames.html>.
• Daniels, Lucy. "Carolina Parent." 1 March 2012. Do Violent Video
Games Affect Children? 31 January 2013.
<http://www.carolinaparent.com/articlemain.php?Do-Violent-
Video-Games-Affect-Children-3272>.
• Norcia, Andrea. "Palo Alto Medical Foundation." 2013. The Impact
of Video Games on Children. 31 January 2013.
<http://www.pamf.org/preteen/parents/videogames.html>.
