Posted by Ryan Straight on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:29:00 EDT in
Yet another study relating violent behavior to playing violent video games. I try to shed some light on why studies like this are taken seriously and why they necessarily shouldn't.
A study was just published that finds a curvilinear relation between the length of gameplay and aggression, in that it peaks at about the first fifteen minutes and then dies off. Sounds like you may be interested in it. Krcmar, M., Lachlan, K. 2009 . Aggressive Outcomes and Videogame Play: ...
@Glen Unfortunately, unless there is a major paradigm shift, it just isn't going to happen. Talk to the guys over at EA who make games with 30,000,000 budgets if there's any money in the sort of games that are specifically geared toward education and they will laugh. There's simply no ...
Speaking of the half-life on video game research, I'm often annoyed when I run across an article published six months ago, not to mention four or five years. Well said.
