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Violent Video Games Don’t Always Reduce Subsequent Helpfulness

July 4, 2013 by

Violent or antisocial video games like Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto do not reliably reduce helpful behaviors in players shortly after playing, according to research published July 3 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Morgan Tear and Mark Nielsen from the University of Queensland, Australia. Â Participants in the research played one of four video games for 20 minutes...

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