Video Games Make You Violent
The idea that violent video games also make their players violent is an unsubstantiated claim that just doesn’t seem to be fading away quickly enough. Time and time again, studies have shown that violent video games do not have a proven direct correlation with how violent a person is. At the very most, some studies have found that it provides a huge pump in adrenaline and energy but, ultimately, gamers didn’t actually become more violent. One of the latest studies focused on levels of empathy after playing violent video games. Researchers actually set out to prove that violent video games reduce players’ levels of empathy, but the results of their experiments proved that gamers had the same amount of empathy as those who didn’t play the violent games.
Despite multiple studies disproving the theory that playing violent games make players violent, that idea is still present throughout much of mainstream media. One example that garnered quite a bit of attention was an episode of CSI: Miami that aired in 2007 titled Urban Hellraisers. The episode was centered around a suspect who was committing a string of murders in an attempt to replicate a Grand Theft Auto-like game.
