No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour

Re:No evidence to support link between violent video games a... by stcredzero on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:47PM (#16163501)

Why is there so much money in advertising if media doesn't condition people?

My conclusion, having watched a lot of this sort of confusion over the years in researchers, philosophers, and thinkers of all sorts, is that there is a connection, but the mode of operation is very subtle, and what it's operating on is very, very complex.

It's like an alien researcher from a planet without computers even remotely resembling ours is trying to figure out human software, notes that '=' seems to be associated with the 'assignment' operation, then gets confused when injecting a whole bunch of '=' randomly into a codebase causes the program to stop, effectively suppressing most of the 'assignment.'

We're only beginning to scratch the surface on the human psyche and its interaction with culture.

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Re:No evidence to support link between violent video games a... by yters on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:05PM (#16164871)

Seems sensible to say it trains the psyche, and then when inhibitions are lowered the psyche acts out. E.g. Freud's theory of the id, ego and super ego or Plato's multipart soul. Media trains the id and ego with imagery and messaging, and when the super ego loses its control the id and ego take over.

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Re:No evidence to support link between violent video games a... by stcredzero on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:44AM (#16165972)

I suspect that Freud’s place in psychology will be like Galen’s in medicine.

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Re:No evidence to support link between violent video games a... by yters on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:42PM (#16171071)

Yes he has a lot of weird. But some big picture views of his are not too off. The id, ego, super ego is at least a useful heuristic.

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