{"id":6745,"date":"2018-01-22T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6745"},"modified":"2018-01-22T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:31:11","slug":"worth-sharing-further-lack-of-evidence-for-link-between-violent-video-games-and-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/01\/22\/worth-sharing-further-lack-of-evidence-for-link-between-violent-video-games-and-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Further LACK of evidence for Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Posted on 16 January 2018<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2018\/research\/no-evidence-to-link-violence-and-video-games\/\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2018\/research\/no-evidence-to-link-violence-and-video-games\/\">No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour &#8211; News and events, The University of York<\/a><\/em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/video-games-505.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6745'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6745);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6745);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6745);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Posted on 16 January 2018 Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent. Source: No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour &#8211; News &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/01\/22\/worth-sharing-further-lack-of-evidence-for-link-between-violent-video-games-and-behaviour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,12,415],"tags":[389,391,342,13,25],"class_list":["post-6745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-games","category-violence","tag-educational-technology","tag-games","tag-games-gaming","tag-games-in-society","tag-trouble-in-river-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1KN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2008\/03\/10\/video-game-violence\/","url_meta":{"origin":6745,"position":0},"title":"Video Game Violence&#8230;.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"does NOT necessarily cause violence, according to a new study: Grand Theft Childhood, by Lawrence Kutner & Cheryl B. 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But that doesn't mean our brains don't have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5421,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/25\/theres-still-trouble-in-river-city-apparently\/","url_meta":{"origin":6745,"position":2},"title":"There&#8217;s STILL Trouble in River City, Apparently","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias. 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