Patrick Kierkegaard, a researcher at the University of Essex, has published his thoughts in the video game violence debate. Writing in the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, Kierkegaard states:
“… there is no obvious link between real-world violence statistics and the advent of video games. If anything, the effect seems to be the exact opposite and one might argue that video game usage has reduced real violence.”
He further states that past research has been biased, though also points that everything has been inconclusive at best. Kierkegaard came to his conclusions after studying multiple experiments and brain scans that supposedly linked games and real world violence.
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