In Part 1 of this post, I talked about research on how playing violent video games is related to aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Overall, the evidence points to small effects of violent ...

One periodic theme in this blog has been the influence of video games on behavior. To summarize what I have discussed in the past, video games can have both positive and negative influences. On the ...

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) watches videos with David Walsh (left), president of the National Institute on Media and Family, at a news conference in the Senate Office Building on the effects of ...

When people watch violent video game characters, the race of those digital avatars can shape the viewers’ racial biases in real life. A recent experiment published in the International Journal of ...

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested a causal link between mass shootings and the playing of video games, though countless studies over the years have ...

Emmanuel Macron said France will look at the effects of violent video games and artificial intelligence agents on kids as the French president also pushes for a social media ban for minors under 15.

A boy playing a video game on a PC at home. Recent research suggests that video games might be harming boys. But debates about children and games miss the fact that not all games are the same. Parents ...