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"Do Video Games Affect People?"

Doing this for an essay for school.
If anyone else is, we should pool our findings.
So far Ive found:
[URL]http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp784772.html[/URL]
[URL]http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee2000425001281.htm[/URL]

Can't find much about them not affecting people. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Doing this for an essay for school.
If anyone else is, we should pool our findings.
So far Ive found:
[URL]http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp784772.html[/URL]
[URL]http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee2000425001281.htm[/URL]

Can't find much about them not affecting people. Can anyone help?

Thanks

B.A.S.I.C wrote:
> Can't find much about them not affecting people. Can anyone help?

Well what about the millions of people that play games and don't go around murdering others.

AOE Wrote
> Well what about the millions of people that play games and don't go
> around murdering others.

Well, obviously I'll use that but I can't find anything else.

*How about where claims of gamesaffecting people have been proven to be false.

Like the Daily Mail claiming a kid that murdered another kid owned the game Manhunt, which he didn't.

Also:

Draw comparisins with how movies and music have been blamed for affecting people aswell.


There y'go kid I just did half your homeowrk for you. :)

Well who's going to do research into what effects games DON'T have? You'd be doing it forever

My game didn't make me a sandwich so I flew into a rage. :(

Ive just been reading about something like this toady in an old copy of edge. It said only a minority had a bad/negative effect of playing games, whereas the majority it mostly benefited. Its blatant Games have had a massive impact on society/culture etc, much in the same way as movies. Its a social or an individual mean of entertainment, and now its even global. I dont know whether or not you are talking about all ways in which games affect people, but there are plent of things to talk about.


Also saying you cant find anything on how games "dont" affect people is stupid. thats like saying you watch a film without even opening your eyes and closing your ears. The only way you cant be affected by games is not to play them.

erm.. not no effect but no negative effect, that's what I meant.
I think there was something in an old PC Format I have, about positive and negative effects;
Hand-eye coordination and some other stuff I can't remember

No of course they don't affect people and i'm offended that you'd ask me to answer such a retarded question. Shove your Daily Mail up your ass and give me a decent question to answer


There you go, there's your essay to hand into teacher

Of course they affect me.

Lets say I had a cup of coffee sitting on my desk, and then, after many attempts at something, i hit my desk, knocking over my coffee, burning my hand.
That would have affected me.