The debate over whether violent video games makes someone violent in the real world has been raging for decades. There’s been no indisputable evidence to support the theory that interactive virtual violence has a negative affect on a person — especially when violent imagery is so easy to consume on any TV screen with a cable connection —but a new study suggests that those who play violent video games may be better at ignoring disturbing images outside of the game world.
The research, which was led by psychologist Dr. Steve Most of the University of New South Wales in Australia, focused on how both gamers and non-gamers are affected by grotesque and unsettling images when seeing many different images in rapid succession.
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