More likely to engage in risky behavior says Darthmouth study

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/08/08/338855459/playing-video-games-can-help-or-hurt-depending-on-who-you-ask

A Dartmouth study concluded that teenagers who played video games that allowed them to play as "evil" characters were more likely to risky behavior. Here is the catch teenagers were less likely to engage in risky behavior if the violent video game had a noble protagonist.

[Peter1469]

Go for a 7 day camping trip for god's sake. Ask Chloe for advise on how to be a man.

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

Go for a 7 day camping trip for god's sake. Ask @Chloe (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=565) for advise on how to be a man.

Grow up!

[Peter1469]

Grow up!

I am 44 and want to be your age. :smiley:

Somehow I think I could survive far longer away from the gaming consul that you.

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

I am 44 and want to be your age. :smiley:

Somehow I think I could survive far longer away from the gaming consul that you.

I don't play that much compared to some of the people I know.

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

I am 44 and want to be your age. :smiley:

Somehow I think I could survive far longer away from the gaming consul that you.

And quit bragging! I think that is immature.

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

Go for a 7 day camping trip for god's sake. Ask @Chloe (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=565) for advise on how to be a man.

Is that an insult?

[del]

Is that an insult?

no, it's advice

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

no, it's advice

Chloe can't give good advice.

[del]

Chloe can't give good advice.

and you apparently can't take it

win-win

go eat some cheetos

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

and you apparently can't take it

win-win

go eat some cheetos

Why are people on this forum so mean?

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

All right let's put this thread back on topic.

[momsapplepie]

I do believe that violent video games does lead to a certain amount of mind training. If someone plays the evil part, they tend to be meaner, then someone who plays the good part. I played dungeons and dragons a couple of times with some people and it was really amazing how seriously they got into their roles of good and evil, and the more I watched, it seemed that even when they were no longer playing, the roles they chose seemed to effect their behavior in real life.

[Matty]

Go for a 7 day camping trip for god's sake. Ask @Chloe (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=565) for advise on how to be a man.
Dayumm

[Matty]

Go for a 7 day camping trip for god's sake. Ask @Chloe (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=565) for advise on how to be a man.
Dayum

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

We should ban all video games that let you play as gangsters and other criminals!

Note:Libhater's logic

[zelmo1234]

I don't play that much compared to some of the people I know.

Just tell me that you have a sun tan

[zelmo1234]

I think that I am starting to see why we need to ban video games.

They appear to be very addictive and actually control people lives.

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

I think that I am starting to see why we need to ban video games.

They appear to be very addictive and actually control people lives.

Ban only the MMOs and crime games.

[zelmo1234]

Ban only the MMOs and crime games.

I am not really for Banning anything if you want to know the truth, I am for choice, I confess I was just poking the bear as they say!

[CAPUSAFcadet23]

I am not really for Banning anything if you want to know the truth, I am for choice, I confess I was just poking the bear as they say!

That comment was satire.

[Chloe]

Go for a 7 day camping trip for god's sake. Ask @Chloe (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=565) for advise on how to be a man.

I'd take him along but I honestly don't think he'd do very well with the way that I camp or like it very much. It could be fun(ny) for one of us at least.

[countryboy]

I am not really for Banning anything if you want to know the truth, I am for choice, I confess I was just poking the bear as they say!
You mean the bear cub. :wink: