Do games desensitize

Ann arbor—playing violent video games changes brain function and desensitizes chronic players to violence, a new study shows.Level 1 · 5 yr.Empathy is cognitively demanding, and people.The paper looks at how people react to violent scenes in movies after playing video games.Playing board games may help protect thinking skills in old age.Some people have difficulty separating reality from fantasy, and when they see you pushing buttons on a controller or keyboard and dropping digital bombs on cyber tanks, shooting pixel people, or blasting a ninja pony with a lightning bolt, they think it means you want to do that in real.

The media could report on a 100 person massacre and gamers may not even care.Over recent years there have been many arguments proposed by those who are not in favour of computer games or video games, or have concerns about either the amount of time spent playing such games, or the nature of the images and scenes watched by those playing them.Because it's just too horrifying to me.Not everyone likes horror games, and that's okay.Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in bullying, and violence towards women.