If Justin Schell, freshman computer science major, had known every time he played a violent video game he was becoming increasingly aggressive, he would have thought twice before playing it. I think increased aggression is a bad thing, said Schell.
People have enough distress in their life to cause aggression without getting it from video games.
Every time a college student plays a video game they increase chance of exhibiting aggressive behavior, according to a recent study at the University of Missouri-Columbia by Dr. Craig A. Anderson. The study tested the short term effect of violent video games and aggressive behavior. 200 college students played either a violent or nonviolent video game three times in two separate sessions, two weeks apart, according to an article on WebMD Medical News. At the end of the third game, they were given another game to try where they set the volume and duration of the losing blast for their opponent. Researchers discovered that the students who had played the violent game set the noise louder and longer than those who had played the nonviolent one, according to the article on WebMD Medical News.