For this journal, you need to choose one of the popular press articles below.
- Researcher Who Studies Kids, Guns, and Media is Used to Attacks from Right and Left
- Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Later Aggression
- Study: Violent Video Games Change How People View Themselves
- Violent Video Games Might Make White People More Racist
- Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing? (Note: There are a couple of articles you could use, here; you need to only pick one.)
- Video Games Not So Bad When Players Cooperate
After you read the article, you should find the scholarly article that the press piece is based on. How does the press piece match up with the scholarly article? What does it get wrong, and what does it get right?
Using what you know from the scholarly piece and the chapter on aggression, how much influence do you think playing violent video games has on aggression? Why?
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