Playing violent video games changes brain function and desensitizes chronic players to violence, a new study shows.
It’s already well known that playing violent video games increases aggressive behavior and decreases helping behavior,” said University of Michigan researcher Brad Bushman. “But this study is the first to link exposure to violent video games with a diminished reaction to violent images.” [continue reading…]
November 2007
Was your mother right after all?
Folklore has it that “eating fish will make you smarter.” Although legends of this type are often discounted as simply old wives’ tales, some science suggests that this folkloric tale may have a degree of validity. [continue reading…]
A theory that raises questions
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Tuesday 27th November, 2007
By Shankar Vedantam [continue reading…]
If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad. The insanity would not lie in the anger and darkness of the human mind—though it can be a black and raging place indeed. And it certainly wouldn’t lie in the transcendent goodness of that mind—one so sublime, we fold it into a larger “soul.” The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant.
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Time
November 26, 2007
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