Lit Review Violent Video Games
WRT 107
Lit Review Draft 2
10/25/2013
Research Proposal Question
Do violent video games cause teenagers to commit violent crimes? Most people would argue that video games cause teenagers to commit violent crimes, but not everyone agrees with that. There are many cases that people have conducted research on teenagers that have committed acts of violence after playing video games. The authors of these articles state that video games leads to aggression and violence in the people that actually become aggressive or commit crimes. One thing that wasn’t in to many of these articles was there comparison to the people that play violent video games and don’t commit violence, but they also play for the same amount of time as the people that commit the violent crimes
The title of this source of information is The Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB, an official organization website that rates every game. You can get all the ratings for each game, they break down what all the ratings mean, who rate these video games, how they reached their rating. You can also search up games that you are looking into buying. These ratings come with an age group on who should be playing these video games. It also will tell you if there is an age restriction on who can actually buy the video game with a certain rating.
"Violent video games and aggressive behavior in young women”, was written by Craig A. Anderson and Christine R. Murphy; the main idea of their article is to research aggression within young women. This article is based on research conducted on ninety-one undergraduate women students that were enrolled in an introductory phycology course. Out of the ninety-one students, thirty-three played a violent video game with a female protagonist. Thirty more students played a violent video game with a male protagonist and the other twenty-seven played a nonviolent video game. The data from one of the participants wasn’t used because of the missing values on
Lit Review Draft 2
10/25/2013
Research Proposal Question
Do violent video games cause teenagers to commit violent crimes? Most people would argue that video games cause teenagers to commit violent crimes, but not everyone agrees with that. There are many cases that people have conducted research on teenagers that have committed acts of violence after playing video games. The authors of these articles state that video games leads to aggression and violence in the people that actually become aggressive or commit crimes. One thing that wasn’t in to many of these articles was there comparison to the people that play violent video games and don’t commit violence, but they also play for the same amount of time as the people that commit the violent crimes
The title of this source of information is The Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB, an official organization website that rates every game. You can get all the ratings for each game, they break down what all the ratings mean, who rate these video games, how they reached their rating. You can also search up games that you are looking into buying. These ratings come with an age group on who should be playing these video games. It also will tell you if there is an age restriction on who can actually buy the video game with a certain rating.
"Violent video games and aggressive behavior in young women”, was written by Craig A. Anderson and Christine R. Murphy; the main idea of their article is to research aggression within young women. This article is based on research conducted on ninety-one undergraduate women students that were enrolled in an introductory phycology course. Out of the ninety-one students, thirty-three played a violent video game with a female protagonist. Thirty more students played a violent video game with a male protagonist and the other twenty-seven played a nonviolent video game. The data from one of the participants wasn’t used because of the missing values on