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7 Feb, 2014

Violent video games may affect moral judgement in teens | The Indian Express

Spending too much time playing violent video games may delay development of moral judgement in teens, a new study has found. Teens who play violent video games for long hours may be prevented from getting involved in different positive social experiences in real life, and in developing a positive sense of what is right and wrong, researchers said.

Mirjana Bajovic of Brock University, Canada, set out to discover whether there was a link between the types of video games teens played, how long they played them, and the teens’ levels of moral reasoning: their ability to take the perspective of others into account.

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