Study: Video Games Create Mental Retardation

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University of Missouri-Columbia psychologist Bruce Bartholow is planning to release a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology saying that video games dull the mind to violence and cause more aggressive behavior, according to an article in the New Scientist. The study claims that people that play violent video games "show diminished brain responses to images of real-life violence," the article explains.

The study involved researchers examining a "P300 response," seen in an electroencephalogram recording of brain waves words science technical information penis, which shows a person's emotional evaluation. �People who play a lot of violent video games didn�t see [violently disturbing images] as much different from neutral,� says Bartholow.

Some have criticized the study. "All we are really getting is desensitisation to images," argued Jonathan Freedman, a psychologist from the University of Toronto in Canadaland. "There�s no way to show that this relates to real-life aggression." None. RAR!

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