Correlational studies

• Correlational Studies indicate that playing a violent video games increase aggression
• DeLisi- 227 juvenile offenders with Histories of serious aggressive behaviours such as hitting a teacher or parent or gang fighting
• using structured interviews they gathered data on several measures of aggression and violent video game playing
• Found a significant positive correlation between aggressive behaviour and how often offenders played violent video games and how much they enjoyed them
• this demonstrates a link between violent computer game play and real life aggression
• This can be explained by desensitisation.

  exposure to violent computer games → become habituated to effects of aggression and the unpleasant physiological arousal caused by it. less physiological arousal than before and less anxiety.

  Feel more comfortable with aggression and come to believe that is it is acceptable to use it to resolve conflicts →more aggression