Violent Behavior Analysis

In this paper, Carnagey, Anderson, and Bushman hypothesize that the rise and popularity of violent video games are desensitizing people, especially children, leading them to have brash personalities which leads to real life violence. In their introduction, the authors state that over eighty-five percent of games contain some form of violence, and also cite an older paper stating that many games rated "E" are still considered too violent by parents. They also state that although there are quite a substantial amount of papers on the subject, they continue to cause debate or are seen as inconclusive. However, their goal with this test was to at link the desensitization of a person leading to violent behaviors due to the person playing video games.
After the second test, the students watched a ten minute video showing real life violence in four different contexts. While these clips were going on, the students heart rates were still measured. Lastly after the video, the students were asked to fill out a questionnaire asking various questions using a one to ten scale, describing their experience with their video game and the film showed. As stated in the previous section, after the students heart rate was tested before they played their given game, after the play through, and during the video showing real life violent acts occurring. Within the two groups of games (nonviolent,violent) the authors found that there was not any significant differences between the four selected violent games or the four selected non violent games. Through their main analysis which utilized the heart rates of the users, they found their was no significant differences during the first two heart rate tests between the non violent group and the violent group. The portion that does cause some interest is the difference of heart rates in regard to viewing the compilation of violent