Aw gee, movies and video games DO affect behavior

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+ +[nq:1]Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media &gt; from the argh-must-destroy-pokemans dept. &gt; posted by Zonk on Thursday December 06, @14:43 (Biotech) &gt; http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1816237&gt;+ +[/nq] (0)Ponca City, We Love You writes "Scientists at Columbia University have used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to show that a brain networkresponsible for (1)suppressing inappropriate or unwarranted aggressive behaviors became less active after study subjects watched several short clips from popular movies depicting acts of violence. These changes could render people less able to control their own aggressive behavior. Although research has shown some correlation between exposure to media violence and real-life violent behavior, there has been little direct neuroscientific support for this theory until now. 'Depictions of violent acts have become very common in the popular media,' said researcher Christopher Kelly. 'Our findings demonstrate for the first time that watching media depictions of violence does influence processing in parts of the brain that control behaviors like aggression.' (2)The full research paper is published on the The Public Library of Science, a (3)peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication, that publishes all its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License."Discuss this story at:http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/06/1816237Links:0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/ 1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub releases/2007-12/cumc-tiy120507.php 2.http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.00012 68 3. http://www.plosone.org/

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[nq:2]Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media > from the argh-must-destroy-pokemans dept. > posted by Zonk on Thursday December 06, @14:43 (Biotech) > http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1816237>[/nq]
[nq:1]+ + (0)Ponca City, We Love You writes "Scientists at Columbia University have used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to show that ... Public Library of Science, a (3)peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication, that publishes all its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License."[/nq]
Heck, I know that after watching "24" I feel like torturing brown people.
Cheers,
B

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[nq:1]Heck, I know that after watching "24" I feel like torturing brown people. Cheers, B[/nq]
You're gonna burn for that.
I had a psychologist neighbor who wrote textbooks - Bob Leibert, since deceased - and his idea was: not much of a link. Colin Something, who shot up the LIRR a few years ago, never watched TV, and I dunno if the Unibomber was a fan of video games.
All I know is, my kids and all their buds watched/ played all the games - and made the differentiation between fantasy and real life. It's like books - There is no frigate like a book - they spark the imagination - the Greatest Generation grew up on violent Westerns. Zane Grey anyone? I haven't seen any of the Saw movies but I'm thinking splatter/ torture/ tie the girl to the radiator flicks would be first on my list to get rid of. I would not want to know someone who is a fan of these movies. By the same token, banning a movie/ book/ video game is assuming that someone cannot tell the diff between reality and pretend, and cannot draw borders.
That being said, I go visit Mom, and she's a big fan of the True Crime genre. Catch a Predator and the like. And she sez, "There are a lot of bad people in this world!" And I say, "Well, you keep looking for them." And my kids, reared in Videoland, are complete pacifist moralists. So far.

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[nq:2]Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media > from the argh-must-destroy-pokemans dept. > posted by Zonk on Thursday December 06, @14:43 (Biotech) > http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/1816237>[/nq]
[nq:1]+ + (0)Ponca City, We Love You writes "Scientists at Columbia University have used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to show that ... Public Library of Science, a (3)peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication, that publishes all its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License."[/nq]
Really? Where does the study show that?
The only sentence I saw above said that the effect indicated "could" produce a particular result not that it was shown to produce that result.
The brutal fact is and you'll never find one phony-*** researcher or commentator or religious leader or politician or anybody else with the ***** to say it if watching violent images on a screen can lead to increased violence, then watching violent SPORTS IMAGES like boxing and football and soccer, should have exactly the same results. The point is, we know for a fact that the latter have led to actual riots where people have actually been killed but there isn't a single person who's ever suggested that we should be *** BANNING SPORTS.
Why not?
Because it's good exercise, or because they're sacred cows and because these vultures always go for the easy targets, which things like movies and video games (or in the past, comic books and paperback novels) have traditionally been?
NMS

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[nq:2]+ + + + (0)Ponca City, We Love You writes "Scientists at ... publishes all its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License."[/nq]
[nq:1]Really? Where does the study show that? The only sentence I saw above said that the effect indicated "could" produce ... which things like movies and video games (or in the past, comic books and paperback novels) have traditionally been? NMS[/nq]
Yeah, ***. I knew YOU would argue to the contrary because factually you've written stuff that has the most horrific **** possible, stuff I wouldn't want my kids watching.
"These vultures" - they're scientists. You're a long-winded jerk.

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[nq:1]Because it's good exercise, or because they're sacred cows and because these vultures always go for the easy targets, which things like movies and video games (or in the past, comic books and paperback novels) have traditionally been? NMS[/nq]
I tell you, sports are the evil that men do and bet on.

I will NOT forget the day - I was a waitress in a busy city DC? place, and the TV was on - that Theisman snapped his leg. Replay went nuts. Snap snap snap. My kid a football star? Not if I can help it. Please be a nerd.
Sports is stupit. I pushed my kids towards fencing and badminton and croquet and chess, thank *** they could tell this from that. Football heros get pounding fencing heros get martinins.

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[nq:1]single person who's ever suggested that we should be *** BANNING SPORTS. Why not?[/nq]
Because those blokes from Manchester United deserve getting knocked around...

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[nq:2]Heck, I know that after watching "24" I feel like torturing brown people. Cheers, B[/nq]
[nq:1]You're gonna burn for that. I had a psychologist neighbor who wrote textbooks - Bob Leibert, since deceased - and ... LIRR a few years ago, never watched TV, and I dunno if the Unibomber was a fan of video games.[/nq]
You know what is an incredibly powerful and direct link that we do eff-all about? Serious brain injuries often destroy the part of the brain that controls violent impulses. So there's all these poor ******** in jail, who COULD be retrained to control their impulses, but all we do is lock them up.
Did I mention that something like 80% of violent-felon prisoners (not including sexual predators, I think) have documented injuries to the brain serious enough to cause this lack. This I got from a woman whose job it was to work with brain-injured people who weren't in the prison system.
I think we should start with the well-documented, clear links first.

Mysti-still-recovering-from-UCSC-Titus-Andronicus-viewing-oh-does-live-performance-count-Berry

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[nq:1]Yeah, ***. I knew YOU would argue to the contrary because factually you've written stuff that has the most horrific **** possible, stuff I wouldn't want my kids watching. "These vultures" - they're scientists. You're a long-winded jerk.[/nq]
I distinctly remember telling you to stop namecalling.

It only annoys the cat.
Mysti

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[nq:2]Yeah, ***. I knew YOU would argue to the contrary ... watching. "These vultures" - they're scientists. You're a long-winded jerk.[/nq]
[nq:1]I distinctly remember telling you to stop namecalling. It only annoys the cat. Mysti[/nq]
I distinctly remember your continual turdish behavior in thinking that I care what you have to say about anything. You're "cute" only to yourself.

Aw gee, movies and video games DO affect behavior

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