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I chose to argue that teens and adolescence have an increase of bad behavior by playing violent video games. I chose this topic, because lately there have been school shootings all around the world by teenagers. There have been theories brought to our attention that playing violent video games can cause bad behavior like this to happen. According to Palo Alto Medical Foundation, “A 2010 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that youth age 8 to 18 devote seven-and-a-half hours a day to entertainment media. Less than half of the kids surveyed said their parents have rules about the shows and games they can watch or play.” Video games increase violence, because many of the aggressive behavior is being repeated over and over throughout.

The fact that this has been recently talked about the past decade or so and that many college students play violent video games, such as COD and so forth, influenced my decision on this topic. Before I chose this topic for sure, I did some research and made sure that I would be able to find legit scholarly sources and I have found quite a bit! Limiting our word count and only having 7 pages to argue a topic is difficult, but I thought that I would be able to argue both sides of this topic. I will be talking about the effects of violent video games and why it has become a bad behavior in most teens and in most adolescence. I will also add in that research and findings have found out that video games in general are cognitively pro-social responses for the brain. I wanted to find a topic that had studies to prove that violent video games increase aggression and violence and why. 

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/11/video-games.aspx

http://ezpolson.nmu.edu:5331/content/36/1/94.full

http://ezpolson.nmu.edu:6129/content/40/5/578.full

http://ezpolson.nmu.edu:5126/article/10.1007/s11126-007-9056-9/fulltext.html