Video games not all bad, psychologists say

Playing video games improves manual dexterity among surgeons, making them faster and less likely to make mistakes, US researchers have said.

The findings were contained in a raft of research about how video games effect the people who play them, discussed Sunday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Boston.

“The big picture is that there are several dimensions in which games have effects,” including their content, how they are played, and how much, said psychologist Douglas Gentile of Iowa State University.

Studies involving high school and college students confirmed previous findings about the social effects of playing violent video games, the Iowa State researchers said. Students who played violent games were more hostile, less forgiving, and more apt to view violence as normal, than peers who played non-violent games.

Source: ‘Yahoo Technology News‘

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