Video Games Raise Aggression in College-Age

The debate on violent video games has been ongoing for decades, since the early days of Sega Genesis games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap. The Supreme Court is deliberating on violent video games law passed in California and then canceled. Now there’s a new search for oil on the fire just before E3 2011 began in Los Angeles. Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) released a new study that found that the brains of players of violent video games become less sensitive to violence, and this response reduces the brain predicts an increase in aggressiveness. Bruce Bartholow, an associate professor of psychology MU, found that violent video games increase aggression, followed by a