Do you believe video games lead to emotional aggression?

Well, I don’t see any evidence that video games are the cause.

Today, most children and teens play video games in many different genres. “RPG,” “MMO,” “MMORPG,” simulation, first and third-person shooter and many more. The different types of video games teenagers play these days are usually something they find interesting.

Most teens are playing first and third-person shooter games, such as Call of Duty or Halo. Many people have the idea that teens who play violent video games cause them to develop physical aggressiveness. This is a false accusation.

Some teenagers who play video games may swear or walk away upset and angry when they lose a match, die in the game, or forgot to save their progress.  However, this is not an excuse to convince people that, if you play these games, you are bound to become violent.   

People try to connect the brain with having a reaction caused by the violence when playing these video games. There is a scientific way to prove that this is not true.

When you sit in front of a screen watching moving images and the characters’ behavior, the physiological mechanisms in your brain give you the idea that the behavior that it displays make you believe it is acceptable. In the article “Violent Video Games Do Not Promote Teen Aggression and Violence,”Serena Gordon quotes Dr. Yang Wang, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the Indiana University School of Medicine

“We found that functioning has been changed in the brain by violent  video games,” Wang said. “We found that activation [of an area of the brain that controls emotion] is decreased after playing violent  video games.”

More than anything, this shows that, when you are done playing video games, you do not have the emotional feeling of aggressiveness. Thus, not giving you a reason to be or develop violence, making it why playing violent video games does not cause you to have aggression.