Violent Video Games and Aggressive
Behavior
Violent Video Games and Aggressive Behavior
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Peer 1 Response: Cait
Anderson & Bushman (2001) conducted the meta-analysis, Effects
of Violent Video Games On Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive
Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial
Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature,
which determined that there was a correlation between playing
video games and aggressive behaviors. In a set of 21 controlled
experimental studies, Anderson & Bushman (2001) concluded that
there was a correlation between playing video games (x) and
engaging in the aggressive behavior (y). Table 1 determined that
aggressive behavior was measured at r= .19, therefore concluding

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