Graphic, Violent Images Can Curb Kids' Aggressions.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=5182859

Quoting an excerpt from the article:

After seeing pictures of people treated for gunshot wounds, including a man whose stomach was ripped apart by a bullet and a woman who lost her 8-month old fetus when she was shot in the abdomen, children and teens demonstrated an improvement in their attitudes toward conflict and aggression.

After looking at those pictures, participants showed signs that they would be "less likely to solve interpersonal conflict in a violent way," study author Dr. Edward E. Cornwell, III told Reuters Health.

Given, this is just a study. But it does make you wonder, perhaps, if the overcensoring that happens in some countries -- for example, the United States -- is having the reverse effect of what people would like it to have.

[Rorschach]

I would wonder how long the changes in these attitudes held
Interesting read though

[Accer]

Not really surprising… The key is what the article called the "minimizing of the consequence."
Showing people half buried in rubble is a lot more emotionally riveting than seeing the explosion of a building, where part of our brain is going, “Oh fire, pretty!”

[Azurain]

I think it's irrelevent either way, but I'm very anti-censorship and in favour of personal rights' precidence. If it was firmly demonstrated to me that violent images in media caused violent acts to be more likely to happen I would maintain firmly that it is completely irrelevant, that censoring violent images is wrong *regardless* of what might be prevented by doing so. I'd rather live in a free society with higher crime than a peacefully numbed one. (edit: and I've never been one to like the idea of hiding children from the real world or any such)

That said, it's excellent news to read that violent images might actually be a good thing, or at least not a bad thing, psychologically, as it'll give all the concerned citizen whiners less to bitch about when the next GTA comes out etc...

-- Chris

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[quote="Azurain";p="338695"]That said, it's excellent news to read that violent images might actually be a good thing, or at least not a bad thing, psychologically, as it'll give all the concerned citizen whiners less to bitch about when the next GTA comes out etc...

-- Chris[/quote]

I'm not so sure it is as simple as comparing graphic, real life photos and media videos of violence to graphic, video game violence. When it comes to video games, it's a matter of simply saying, "Oh, cool graphics!" or "It's only a video game."

Kind of like what Accer said about when you don't see the dead, or the graphic nature of the dead. All you see is the big, "pretty" explosions of fire and the crumbling of towers falling in a rush of debris.

Which isn't to say that video game violence is bad. I just think that it is hard to compare graphics in a video game to real life violence. Much like how it'd be silly to compare the images of violence in a movie to violence in real life.