There have been so many studies of late looking at the negative link between violence and videogames. Ars Technica have taken a different approach in their recent studies and have not focused on the link between games and real life actions. Instead they have looked at the emotional reactions between killing opponents and being killed in videogames.

The study involved gamers playing the Gamecube titles James Bond 007: Nightfire (violent) and Super Monkey Ball 2 (non-violent). While playing both games the skin conductance levels and facial expressions of the students who participated where measured in order to find specific emotional responses and measure emotional arousal.

Playing the violent first person shooter Nighfire the students constantly produced emotional responses to both being killed and killing. Surprising when killing an opponent they became more nervous and anxious rather than being excited and happy about the victory, they start worrying about where they have to find their next target. In contrast to this there was a positive reaction when the player was killed, they could relax for a little while and and this helped to release tension. In comparison there were high levels of positive emotions when something was achieved in Super Monkey Ball 2.

The article by Ars Technica does go on to say that the gamers with the higher scores had a much lesser reaction to killing someone as well as the fact that they are unsure what the study means at this point.

Submitted by ICC_06 05/03/2008 90 15

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