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This article is about violent video games increasing adolescent aggressiveness. The study was conducted by researchers at Dartmouth College. The research was conducted nationwide with more than five thousand adolescents who were randomly selected. The study was done with adolescents playing as anti-social protagonist characters, games such as Grand Theft Auto. The experimental group was adolescent males and females. The study showed that adolescents are more likely to engage in behaviors such as aggression, consumption of alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and sexual behaviors. "This study is important because it is the first to suggest that possible effects of violent video games go well beyond violence to apply to substance use, risky driving and risk-taking sexual behavior”, says co-author and pediatrician, Professor James Sargent. I thought this was interesting that not only does the study show that adolescents will engage in risky behavior but also risky driving. This is extremely dangerous to other drivers. The reasoning behind this is because the adolescents fill the persona of the character that he or she is playing. “They found that such games are associated with subsequent changes in a wide range of high-risk behaviors and suggest this is due, in part, to changes in the users' personality, attitudes and values, specifically making them more rebellious and thrill seeking”. This connects to real life because so many kids today play mature video games. The stores have an age restriction when selling the game however some parents today do not care what video games their children play. I believe parents should monitor what their child play based on his or her age.

References: Boyd, Denise Roberts., and Helen L. Bee. // Lifespan Development //. Sixth ed. Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2012. Print Dartmouth College. "Becoming bad through video games: Risk-glorying video games to increases in teens' high-risk behavior." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 August 2014. .

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