I have a request for the scientific community at large, though really this is for any of their ilk that want to do a study on games. Before one of your noble community decides to shed light on the apparently opaque machinations of video games and their effects on humanity, could you please, please, ask a gamer first and if it’s not too much trouble could you also adhere to your own rules. Every day a new study is debuted that links games with something, whether it be violence, relaxation, concentration or a lack thereof, and here is one more.
The May issue of Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology will be running an article on a study that sought to determine the effect of blood levels in a game on "aggression, hostility, and arousal". In order to determine this the authors had subjects play Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance with different […]
Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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