Finnish Study Reveals Unexpected Player Reaction to Violence in Videogames
By Shawn on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 5:28 PM PST In Computer, Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Game Related Science, Gamer Life, Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo, Portable, Sony
We’ve all heard the claim that violence in video games promotes desensitization to real life violence in players.
A new study by a team out of Helsinki Finland tested the immediate brain response of 36 participants to individual game events. The results, published under “The Psychophysiology of James Bond: Phasic Emotional Responses to Violent Video Game Events,” led to some interesting and unexpected finds.
While playing James Bond 007: Nightfire, the subjects reacted negatively to shooting or killing antagonists while they found their own characters’ death or wounding rewarding.
“There was no evidence for desensitization of emotional responses as a function of repeated exposures to violent game events,” concluded the study.
You can read the full summary of this surprising study at ShackNews.
This just in! Video games cause Suicide!
Ha Ha very funny!
Those 36 must smoke a lot weed cause why the hell would you get off from your OWN character dying? That’s jacked up.