Write 6 pages thesis on the topic effect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violence. They feel it is desensitizing them to real violence. They are less shocked, less empathetic, and learn to have less sympathy for others after exposure to graphically violent video games. However, their study appears to assume that because these players are desensitized it, automatically, makes them a greater risk act out violently in the real world. This is simply not true and it is an unfair bias present in the article.

In the article, “The Effect of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence,” a study was conducted comprising 257 college students of both genders. The ultimate goal of the research was to expose individuals to violent game content and then exposed to images of real-life violence. They would regularly record their physiological response to the real-life images after continuous exposure to the violence in the game through their changes in heart rate and Galvanic Skin Response, GVR (2007). The results favored the author’s intent. They were able to correlate a continuing level of desensitization that exists to real-life violence once they have been exposed to violent simulated media. However, they fail to identify what that actually means. To the average person, it could insinuate that desensitization leads to violent behavior, but there is no definitive proof supporting that

Sometimes it seems that desensitization is associated with a loss of decency or ethics. In other words, being less sensitive to certain images and events makes you cold or less compassionate to the feelings of others (American Psychological Association, 2014). However, we have no one to blame but ourselves for the changes&nbsp.in imagery and the need for greater and greater realism.