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Violent computer games spur aggression: study

...ldren. The study was conducted on 39 experienced gamers and measured brain activity in response to particular images comprised mainly of neutral scenes, but including some violent and negative non-violent scenes. An EEG provided a reading of the perceived emotional content of an image, which increased w...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...stress and receiving emotional support." Serious gamers who spend hours sitting in front of a TV also risk...ance to spend time with peers, he said. Although gamers lose time to participate in sports and other physical activities, video games aren't the sole reason...

Why People are Addicted to Video Games?

...aborated to conduct a study and enquired from 1000 gamers their motivation to keep playing. The results published in the journal Motivation and Emotion this month suggest that people enjoy video games because they find them intrinsically satisfying. "We think there's a deeper theory than the fun of playing...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...ce in cyberspace, where earning credits for online gamers who are too busy to do it themselves has become a handy source of extra income for the 21-year-old -- and a full-time job for thousands of other Chinese. Zhao, a third-year student at Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics, says he m...

Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children

...rchers added that these findings did not mean that gamers were unsocial people. "These findings do not sup... not have an adverse effect on grades. "Although gamers spend less time reading and doing homework, there have been some studies that show that high academi...

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