No, video games don't make you violent

• Analysis of one of the modern myths about video games

Unfairly, video games are blamed for things such as generating violence in the real world and even being guilty of killings (Ollero, 2018), this because people who consume this type of product are not considered knowing how to distinguish between real violence and simulated violence that exists within the world of video games (Hazel, 2019; Pinedo, 2019), it must also be considered that there are many types of video games and not all of them are violent, for example, there are strategy, construction or educational games among many more.

The video game industry covers many areas in the technical field, such as computing, sound design (Nocetti, 2015; Nocetti, 2014), music or the different branches of science; in addition to graphic design, which is one of the most important elements and is one of the topics under discussion, since there is research (Peña, 2020), that seeks to know if the realism of video games and violent behavior on the part of the players are related, this study results in the fact that there is no correlation between realism in video games and aggressiveness on the part of the players. (Przybylski & Weinstein, 2019). There is also another study, which seeks the correlation between crimes and video games (Ferguson, 2014), in which curiously the result shows the opposite of what some people's beliefs hold, to more violent video games, less crime; despite these interesting results, the truth is that they have no correlation and are completely independent variables (González, 2014).

In conclusion, the relationship between violent video games and aggressive behaviors by players, are currently an urban myth that does not have scientific support, there are other factors that can cause violent behavior, but if the person is also a video game consumer violent, it's just a coincidence.

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How to cite this article

Nocetti, F.A. (2020). "No, video games don't make you violent". In NabbuBlog. Retrieved from http://nabbublog.blogspot.com/2020/04/no-video-games-dont-make-you-violent.html