prejudices about gamers and games remain rampant we want to take a close look at the five most prejudice number one shooter games make you aggressive the assumption is that if you kill other people in the game you ll be more violent in real life but there s no scientific evidence to prove this for example a study by oxford university showed that the contents of a game don t make you aggressive but frustrating game mechanics to experts at hamburg s university clinics say people who play action games do not behave more aggressively in the long run other studies show that playing a lot of violent games can leave you emotionally numb but there is no evidence that violent games make someone more prone to violence so how do our brains really react when we play shoot us. that s exactly what daphne from the university of geneva wants to find out she has people play first person shooters while hooked up to
prejudices about gamers and games remain rampant we want to take a close look at the five most prejudice number one shooter games make you aggressive the assumption is that if you kill other people in the game you ll be more violent in real life but there s no scientific evidence to prove this for example a study by oxford university showed that the contents of a game don t make you aggressive but frustrating game mechanics to experts at hamburg s university clinics say people who play action games do not behave more aggressively in the long run other studies show that playing a lot of violent games can leave you emotionally numb but there is no evidence that violent games make someone more prone to violence so how do our brains really react when we play shoot us. that s exactly what daphne from the university of geneva wants to find out she has people play first person shooters while hooked up to
never say in person, in real life because the ramifications and repercussions for some of their tough talk or their negative talk, worse thing that happens to them is they get blocked. greg: right. you walk up to me on the street, you get your ass kicked. then you ve got to heal, you ve got to, you know, get new teeth [laughter] in some cases learn to walk again. so it s less people are a lot tougher without the consequences. but what works for me because i get at lot of questions asked, i tend to answer them in ways that ends the conversation. hey, tyrus, how you doing? maintaining. keep moving. what s going on? room temperature. just throw something at em. [laughter] hey, what s up? furnace. by the time they figure out what you said, you re gone. [laughter] i do think there s a potentially dangerous numbing effect from the social media. and much like kids playing shooter games nonstop, right, and the ability for that to stunt sort of the development of empathy in those kid
life because the ramifications and repercussions for some of their tough talk or their negative talk, worse thing that happens to them is they get blocked. greg: right. you walk up to me on the street, you get your ass kicked. then you ve got to heal, you ve got to, you know, get new teeth [laughter] in some cases learn to walk again. so it s less people are a lot tougher without the consequences. but what works for me because i get at lot of questions asked, i tend to answer them in ways that ends the conversation. hey, tyrus, how you doing? maintaining. keep moving. what s going on? room temperature. just throw something at em. [laughter] hey, what s up? furnace. by the time they figure out what you said, you re gone. [laughter] i do think there s a potentially dangerous numbing effect from the social media. and much like kids playing shooter games nonstop, right, and the ability for that to stunt sort of the development of empathy in those kids, i think the social media c
never say in person, in real life because the ramifications and repercussions for some of their tough talk or their negative talk, worse thing that happens to them is they get blocked. greg: right. you walk up to me on the street, you get your ass kicked. then you ve got to heal, you ve got to, you know, get new teeth [laughter] in some cases learn to walk again. so it s less people are a lot tougher without the consequences. but what works for me because i get at lot of questions asked, i tend to answer them in ways that ends the conversation. hey, tyrus, how you doing? maintaining. keep moving. what s going on? room temperature. just throw something at em. [laughter] hey, what s up? furnace. by the time they figure out what you said, you re gone. [laughter] i do think there s a potentially dangerous numbing effect from the social media. and much like kids playing shooter games nonstop, right, and the ability for that to stunt sort of the development of empathy in those kid