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Hunter Frost

English 1201

Professor Thomas

22 November 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Within my essay, I will be trying to understand and evaluate how violent video games

affect children’s behavior and reactions. My essay will be focusing on the outrage of children

who play violent video games and on their behavior. I would like to understand if these violent

video games are solely responsible for the behavior of these children as they get upset and mad

as a result of these video games.

Anderson, Craig A. “An Update on the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games.” Journal of

Adolescence, Academic Press, 24 Dec. 2003,

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197103000976. 17 Nov. 2019.

This journal was written by Craig A. Anderson and presents a brief overview of existing

research on the effects of exposure to violent video games. The journal shows that

exposure to violent video games is significantly linked to increases in aggressive

behaviour, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, and cardiovascular arousal, and to

decreases in helping behavior. It shows how other studies underestimate the effect of these

violent video games on behavior.

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Casey, Michael. “Do Violent Video Games Lead to Criminal Behavior?” CBS News, CBS

Interactive, 19 Aug. 2015, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/do-violent-video-games-lead-

to-criminal-behavior/. 17 Nov. 2019.

This article is written by Michael Casey and published by CBS news. It is discussing the

link between playing video games and less serious aggressive behavior. Scientists have

investigated the use of violent video games for more than two decades but to date, there is

very limited research addressing whether violent video games cause people to commit acts

of criminal violence.

Scutti, Susan. “Do Video Games Lead to Violence?” CNN, Cable News Network, 22 Feb.

2018, https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html. 17

Nov. 2019.

This article is an interview conducted by CNN that was with president Trump over the

developing theories of how violent video games affect young people’s behaviors. "I'm

hearing more and more people saying the level of violence in video games is really

shaping young people's thoughts," he said. Trump goes on to talk about how research

demonstrated a link between violent video game use and both increases in aggressive

behavior and decreases in prosocial behavior, empathy, and moral engagement.

Snider, Mike. “Study Confirms Link between Violent Video Games and Physical

Aggression.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 8 Aug. 2019,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/10/01/violent-video-games-tie-physical-

aggression-confirmed-study/1486188002/. 17 Nov. 2019.

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This article by USA Today and written by Mike Snider shows tremendous examples and

studies completed in order to show how violent video games lead directly to aggression

and physical behavior. Interest in research on video games' potential for violence increased

after it was learned Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two teenagers who committed the

Columbine High School shooting, played the first-person shooting computer game

"Doom."

Park, Alice. “Violent Video Games Change Kids to Think More Aggressively.” Time, Time,

24 Mar. 2014, https://time.com/34075/how-violent-video-games-change-kids-attitudes-

about-aggression/. 17 Nov. 2019.

This article by Alice Park and published by TIME is showing and demonstrating how over

time video games will and do make us more aggressive. The more we play violent video

games, the more we are endangering ourselves to the increase of physical aggression and

reactions that will be seen as outrage as a result of these violent video games.

Approximately 90% of children in the U.S. play video games, and more than 90% of those

games involve mature content that often includes violence. The connection between

violent media and aggression has also spawned a body of research that has gone back and

forth on the issue.

Bartholow, Bruce D., and Craig A. Anderson. “Effects of Violent Video Games on

Aggressive Behavior: Potential Sex Differences.” Journal of Experimental Social

Psychology, Academic Press, 25 May 2002,

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103101915021. 17 Nov. 2019.

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In this article by Bruce D. Bartholow, it is discussed about a major study completed to see

how college students would react after playing a violent video game and how they would

react playing a normal golf game. The results confirmed their hypothesis that playing the

violent game would result in more aggression than would playing the nonviolent game. In

addition, a Game × Sex interaction showed that this effect was larger for men than for

women.

2018, Documentary. Dailymotion, Dailymotion, 6 Oct. 2015,

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38qzq8. 17 Nov. 2019.

This 45 minute documentary video published by Dailymotion is an in depth analysis over

if “video games really are bad.” The documentary is talking about how video games can

affect your brain and your visual abilities as well. The video talks on how video games can

help the brain and help the brain growth, but violent video games are still not helpful to

the thoughts and reactions that are put in the brain.