Desensitization

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violent video games previously to watching the video showed lower heart rate and galvanic skin response readings compared to those who had not played violent video games displaying a physiological desensitization to violence. To understand the effects of repeated exposure to violence, researchers have suggested that viewers become comfortable with violence that is initially anxiety provoking, much as they would if they were undergoing exposure therapy.

Desensitization Due to Media

January 3, 2008

According to the American Medical Association, American Academy of Paediatrics, American Psychological Association, American Academy of Family Physicians and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry the media violence do affect children's behaviour, attitudes and values. As we all know today, children's desensitization to violence has increased numerously, especially in the past few years. Just because, by the time a child is eighteen years old, he or she will witness ...

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people say it not only troubled them to see images of tens of students being dragged death but everyday increasingly people wanted more information about the shootings, and student's killer. Isn't it enough to see it once? No, people want increasingly more violence!
Still people today, try to blame something; usually it is violent videogames that are blamed for everything, "If the killer didn't play video games... "Is what we usually hear from people? Sadly, violent video games are just a small percentage of the whole reality that makes us desensitized. Violent video games may be the reason for the Virginia Shooting Massacre in 2007 or the Columbia High School tragedy in 1999. In ...

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