Researchers: Playing too much GTA actually can make you a sociopath

[Brad Reed]

While violent video games are often unfairly used as scapegoats for mass shootings, scientists have found that playing violent video games for several hours a day every day actually can do bad things to your sense of morality. BBC News reports that researchers at Brock University in Canada have found that "over-exposure" to violent games can weaken teenagers' sense of right and wrong and can lower their ability to develop empathy for others. Lacking a sense of right and wrong and lacking empathy are, of course, two primary traits of sociopaths.

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Via BRG - Boy Genius Report