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VIOLENCE EXPOSURE IN REAL-LIFE

While looking at violence on television, it is obvious that many people’s main focus is the way that it affects children. Many times on the news you see examples of violence being exerted in school such as the many school shootings that have happened throughout history and the most recent one being the stabbing that occurred on March 9, 2014. The fact that children and teenagers are some of the main people behind these acts is alarming due to the fact that they almost always have potentially seem themselves do these acts on a video game or something such as that.

In a study by Funk, Baldacci, Pasold, Baumgardner (2004) they talk about the use of video games as a way of “rewarding violence and desensitizing violence” (p. 25). Video games often reward violent behaviors in games and allow the user to feel a sense of accomplishment when they have done something bad to something or someone else. When it comes to real life situations, the users of these games may have felt themselves in charge of a weapon virtually, but now it is real in their hands and they may feel a sense of entitlement. The ability for someone to feel the reward of violence in their mind allows them to think that these feelings may come to them in real life due to their alter egos on gaming systems.

Although those who tend to use violence in the real world may not have gotten their exact motives and emotions from video games, the desensitization of the acts may have allowed them to think that these actions were reasonable. By censoring some violence on video games, it may allow the youth to feel less desire to enact violence such as the actions they perform during video games in real life.

 

Funk, J. B., Baldacci, H., Pasold, T., & Baumgardner, J. (2004, February). Violence exposure in real-life, video games, television, movies, and the internet: is there desensitization? Journal of Adolescence, 27(1), 23-39. Retrieved April 8, 2014, from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197103000939

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