A new review of 130 studies "strongly suggests" playing violent video games increases aggressive thoughts and behavior and decreases empathy. A study at the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University did a statistical analysis of studies on more than 130,000 gamers from elementary school age to college in the USA, Europe and Japan. Details are in the journal Psychological Bulletin.
An associate professor at Texas A&M International University complains the analysis "contains numerous flaws," which he says result in "overestimating the influence" of violent games on aggression. He says neighborhood quality, parents' domestic violence and exposure to violent TV or video games "were not predictive of youth violence and aggression."
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