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Violent video games like Grand Theft Auto do not make players more aggressive, major new study finds

"The research question arises first from the fact that the popularity and the quality of video games are increasing" - Dr Gregor Szycik, Hannover Medical School.

A group of gamers who had played for at least two hours a day - though in many cases nearer four - for the last four years were compared with a control group of people who did not game regularly.

To evaluate their capacity for empathy and aggression, parpicipants from both groups answered psychological questionnaires.

Then, while their brains were being scanned in an MRI machine, they were shown a series of images designed to provoke an emotional and empathetic response.

As the images appeared, the participants were asked to imagine how they would feel if they were involved in the depicted situation.

The questionnaire revealed no differences in levels of aggression between gamers and non-gamers, a finding that was backed up by the MRI data, which revealed similar neural responses between the two groups.

Link: www.telegraph.co.uk