Tuesday, May 25, 2010

i guess i will just beat people up

turns out that playing violent video games isn't cathartic

1 comment:

andrew said...

They found:

Participants primed to be angry and also primed to think that catharsis was effective led them to rate violent video games as more attractive.
Participants primed to think that catharsis was not effective led all participants to rate violent video games as less attractive.


The title of the article is misleading. I don't see how this conclusion supports or refutes catharsis.

A control group of people should have been kept away from video games, and then a day later the entire group should have been tested to see if they were still angry.