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No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour :
In a series of experiments, with more than 3,000 participants, the team demonstrated that video game concepts do not 'prime' players to behave in certain ways and that increasing the realism of violent video games does not necessarily increase aggression in game players.
The dominant model of learning in games is built on the idea that exposing players to concepts, such as violence in a game, makes those concepts easier to use in 'real life'. This is known as 'priming', and is thought to lead to changes in behaviour. Previous experiments on this effect, however, have so far provided mixed conclusions.
Researchers at the University of York expanded the number of participants in experiments, compared to studies that had gone before it, and compared different types of gaming realism to explore whether more conclusive evidence could be found
[...] "The findings suggest that there is no link between these kinds of realism in games and the kind of effects that video games are commonly thought to have on their players.
"Further study is now needed into other aspects of realism to see if this has the same result. What happens when we consider the realism of by-standing characters in the game, for example, and the inclusion of extreme content, such as torture?
"We also only tested these theories on adults, so more work is needed to understand whether a different effect is evident in children players."
Journal Reference:
David Zendle, Daniel Kudenko, Paul Cairns. Behavioural realism and the activation of aggressive concepts in violent video games. Entertainment Computing, 2018; 24: 21 DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2017.10.003
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
You'll notice in some porn they look like they're having fun. In others they don't.
Over the years I've noticed that there is certainly a sort of man who likes unhappy looking porn. I get the impression that these aren't guys who have lots of sex and the thought of having good sex is more or less foreign to them. I've seen these sorts of guys insist that women don't actually enjoy sex and just let guys do it in order the get stuff from them.
Anyhow what is this sort of behavior that the woman appears to enjoy and yet must be unenjoyable?
Getting hammered rhythmically for 45 minutes? Yeah nobody involved likes that. The real reason they do that in porn is because while it's awful sex it's easy to film, edit, and view. Go ahead and look at videos of people screwing on pornhub. Real sex is as visually boring on flim as a real fight. They're not trying to make it real.
Ironically it's prudes like you who have squashed frank sexual discussion in America and now young people are forced to try and recreate the awkward unenjoyable sex they see on the internet.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 19 2018, @10:58PM
> it's prudes like you
WTF did that come from ? Not from the comment you're replying to, for sure. Projecting much ?