Abstract

According to prior studies, aggressive behavior and some other anti-social personality maybe originate from home environment, peer pressure, video game. Violent video game as one part of a violent culture that many children and adults inhabit, it plays more important role in today society. The social effect of violent video game has been discussed by many scientists concerning the juvenile violence. This article briefly reviews the studies of violent video game on players' negative effect in their personality development, such as aggression, anti-social emotion and action, and so on. Even violent video game is not the only way that contributing to people's negative behavior. One consistent conclusion can be concluded that violent video game increase players' aggressive behaviors, aggressive cognitions, psychological arousal, hostility and other negative reactions. However, it's not so much frustrating. Playing game have positive effects on player, either, and if we use it in a correct way, it may be a suitable way to develop our basic cognitive processing, thinking and problem-solving skills.

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