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News you need to know about what not to buy for Christmas Christmas is just around the corner and you've probably already started making a mental list of gifts for your children. As you are out and about this holiday season shopping for your children, we encourage you to stay away from Violent Video Games. Playing violent video games can increase a person's aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior both in laboratory settings and in actual life. Furthermore, violent video games may be more harmful than violent television and movies because they are interactive, very engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor, say the researchers. " Two studies appearing in the April 2000 issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reveal that young men who are habitually aggressive may be especially vulnerable to the aggression-enhancing effects of repeated exposure to violent games," said psychologists Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., and Karen E. Dill, Ph.D. "The other study reveals that even a brief exposure to violent video games can temporarily increase aggressive behavior in all types of participants." Check out Common Sense Media's 10 Most Violent Video Games for some ideas on what NOT to buy your tweens and teens for Christmas. Sources:
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