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Sunday, June 26, 2005
First Person Shooter's Games Becoming Deadly
German scientist Klaus Mathiak’s neuroresearch suggests that reinforcing the circuits the brain uses to respond to a crisis with aggression, even violence, may prime the brain to act the same way in real life. This would suggest then that by playing violent first person shooter games one is actually predisposing oneself biologically to react with violence to certain crisis situations, similar to Pavlov’s research with programming dogs.
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