Children are acting violent due to the games they play. Children that Play violent video games are most likely to cause violence to others. “Video games cause children to be more aggressive towards others. Exposing children and adolescents (or “youth”) to violent visual media increases the likelihood that they will engage in physical aggression against another person” (Anderson). The children who play the violent video games are like to have short tempers and get mad easily.
Video Games This generation kids are addicted to video games. Video games are simulations where the player has control. These video games have negative effects on people Video games affect people in negative ways; they cause bad behavior, bad social life, and brain effects. Video Games Affect People’s Behavior Children become more aggressive. In “Can Playing Video Games be Harmful to Your Kids” Manshacher stated, “There is increased risk of being aggressive and normalizing aggressive behavior if violence-based games are played.”(P27).
Do you think kids get more and more violent after playing video games? I think that kids do get more violent and learn more negative things from video games. Such as when kids play games like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty they want to shot and kill people. Games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto are rated M for a reason. An M rated game means mature, so you have to be 17 or older to purchase.
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They say things change for better or worse, and violence in video games is definitely a change for the worse. Violent video games are dangerous to the human mind. Because of this, violent video games should have stronger restrictions on explicit content. More solutions include offering classes in school to raise awareness about violence in video games and having retailers do a better job of distributing video games to the appropriate age group. As a result of video games becoming more violent, children are being more and more exposed to this violence.
Although the violence in these video games is fictional, research has proven the violence to lead to more aggressive behavior in children. Violent acts depicted in these games allow young children to believe that killing and fighting is acceptable and fun. Violence in Video Games As technology evolves the violence in video games has grown. Video games h... ... middle of paper ... ... Games on Players' Hostile Expectations, Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings, and Other Responses. Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 57(2), 224-241. doi:10.1080/08838151.2013.787078 Saleem, M., Anderson, C. A., & Gentile, D. A.
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Adolescents and children are revealed to violent games could have a bad influence which should be controlled in today’s society. Video games are violent and they affect young teens because they are exposed to explicit material. Modern violent video games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 contains a lot of destruction, the use of military weapons and even blood and gore scenes. The video game is violent because it actually gives the real life feeling of doing illegal actions such as random killing. It can even promote bad actions through repetitive exposure to the weapons used in the game.
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