Video games and violence

Abstract

This article is dedicated to investigation of violence in video games and its effect on the players’ social behavior. For the purpose of research, articles of different authors were reviewed and processed. The need for such method was necessary due to the separation objective scientific research conducted in compliance with the necessary requirements, from articles whose purpose is to obtain a predetermined result because of the interest of the funding or conducting party, and to cover all possible opinions, to consider the arguments of their supporters and make up own opinion. Also some statistic data from worldwide known scientific organizations was handled. Among the objectives of the study, the following can be noted as the main: identifying the most common myths and misconceptions about video games and their impact on players, the reasons for their emergence and maintenance and ways to debunk them; systematization of existing scientific research of recent years and conclusions, to which their authors came. In the course of writing this article and accompanying research, the following conclusions were drawn: cruel video games are really one of the sources of aggression of players, but they do more good than harm, because they make it easier to absorb useful or interesting information, partly combining it with rest.