Article Summary:
Shooting in the Dark
“Shooting in the Dark,” written by Benedict Carey and published by The New York Times, discussed that violent videogames, also including other media, significantly increases children’s aggressive and violent personality with supporting of three main conducted research from psychologists: The first research, “…short-term laboratory experiments…,” which conducted a fifteen minute session of playing Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance by forty-seven undergraduates of Iowa State University, resulted with all subjects becoming more aggressive after playing. The second research, the “…longer-term studies, often based in schools…” in which Christopher J. Ferguson believes, “this is a pool of research that, so far, has not been very well done…I look at it and I can’t say what it means,” suggest that videogames, including other factors like bullying, relates to many of the school violence. The third and last research, “the correlation studies,” analyzes video game sales and trends that relates to violent crime.