When a team of researchers in the U.K. recently formulated a basic research question—Does playing violent video games cause young people to become more aggressive?—like many of us, they speculated ...

The meeting was closed to the press, and the White House has not released any statement, but Trump has blamed video games in recent weeks for making kids more violent, as have some of the guests he ...

Psychologists at the University of Montreal have discovered that action video games can cause the grey matter in your hippocampus to atrophy—the neurological version of going catabolic—and that ...

When people watch violent video game characters, the race of those digital avatars can shape the viewers’ racial biases in real life. A recent experiment published in the International Journal of ...

The details would have to be covered in a separate post, but the point is that the results of research on violence and aggression in games are mixed. There are several possible reasons why, but when I ...