Long-term Study Finds No Link Between Video Game Violence and Real Violence

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SternisheFan (http://beta.slashdot.org/~SternisheFan) sends news that a study has been completed on the long-term effects of violence in movies and video games on violence in real life. A researcher at Stetson University found no link between the consumption of violent media and an increase in societal violence (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/ica-nlf102814.php). The study was published in the Journal of Communication (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12129/full). From the article:"Entertainment Software Ratings Board ratings were used to estimate the violent content of the most popular video games for the years 1996-2011. These estimates of societal video game violence consumption were correlated against federal data on youth violence rates during the same years. Violent video game consumption was strongly correlated with declines in youth violence.

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