[Iron Greasel]

Yorick: What was that first post about? The first quote seems to say, behind all the psychological terminology, that people can learn from example. The second seems to state that psychologists do not know how this actually happens. The third one describes "game theory", which, to my understanding, doens't have very much to do with violence in video games.

As for the others, I stand by my previous position. Video games can affect the mind of the player in various subtle ways, but they will not turn him into a homicidal maniac. In all these studies, was there a single occurrence of a test subject attacking the person doing the test after playing a video game? There is a difference between "more violent" and "murderous".

The example that started this discussion, the guy who tried to steal a taxi after doing it in GTA, did not score thirty percent higher than average in a multiple choise "are you violent"-test. He killed a person. That is not something that normal individuals do in normal conditions, with or without violent video games.