From Grand Theft Auto to Red Dead Redemption, some of today’s most popular video games reward players for acting out violent fantasies against sex workers. In real life, however, the violence that sex ...

When people watch violent video game characters, the race of those digital avatars can shape the viewers’ racial biases in real life. A recent experiment published in the International Journal of ...

Video games might be a staple of most young men's lives, but they are also divisive. Are they all bad? Here, experts explain ...

In Part 1 of this post, I talked about research on how playing violent video games is related to aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Overall, the evidence points to small effects of violent ...

Two recent studies provide insight into whether playing violent video games is related to mental health or aggression. Teens who had consistently played violent games for years also reported higher ...

Video game violence can be a fickle thing, with some of the most controversial video games of all time relatively tame by today's standards. But for all the delicate sensibilities of the 1990s, there ...