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New Study Shows Violent Games Make Mornings Worse

Negative Gamer writes:

"The paper, published in Acta Paediatrica, used 19 boys aged between 12 and 15 and told them to play one violent, and one non-violent game for 2 hours before bed. Measurements of their heartbeat and movement were measured whilst they played, and during the following night of sleep."

NG have essentially a nice translation of the report from technical talk (though the link to the report is given) into stuff we can understand.

NG conclude:

"So there you have it, violent games clearly have a different impact on the gamer, but not on the quality of their sleep. Saying that, if you want to make getting out of bed easier on a Monday morning, don't play Manhunt."
wardrox - contributor
Published: 392 days 11 hours ago | News | Xbox | Gaming | Industry News
 
 

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omodis420 - 392 days 23 hours ago
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The lesson learned is that if you want a good morning. Play LBP before you go to bed.
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The Matrix - 392 days 9 hours ago
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No what really makes mornings worse is waking up and finding out you've ran out of toilet paper and then going to Starbucks to find out they don't have any venti cups.
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big shadow - 392 days 20 hours ago
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Interesting article
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kesvalk - 392 days 11 hours ago
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okay, befora sleep a sesion of 1 hour of mario galaxy should do the trick...
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kesvalk - 392 days 10 hours ago
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nah, i am doing purple comets right now...

thinking about it, this will surely give me nightmares...
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Hellsvacancy - 392 days 10 hours ago
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Smokin green the night b4 make u sleepier the morning after too does that make me a doctor
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kesvalk - 392 days 10 hours ago
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no
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nycredude - 392 days 7 hours ago
5 - Are these kids even old enough?
Are they even supposed to play the games they subjected them to?
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peeps - 392 days 7 hours ago
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12-15 year olds shouldn't be playing violent games anyway... i imagine if you did it on someone who's 18+ there would be less effect. saying that i don't think it needs a study to realise playing a tense voilent game is more likely to get the blood pumping (their appeal) than playing a game like wii music
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thezuur - 391 days 20 hours ago
7 - this is bull
you cant pull stats from a pool that small (19). and second. I'd had dreams/nightmares including wipeoutHD and PJ-monsters. i personally think its more related to what you ate for dinner that affects your dreams.
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lokiroo420 - 391 days 17 hours ago
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WHo the hell funded a small insignificant lame ass ignorant nonsensical worthless study like this, and who are the people administering these tests? In other news foozball is da devil!
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MartyPs3 - 391 days 7 hours ago
9 - I don't buy it
They say the study includes 2 games, of equal difficulty.

Animaniacs Vs Manhunt 2.
OK...Unless i'm way out of the loop, isn't animaniacs on the SNES?
and I think they're underestimating the impact of the story line, Manhunt 2 is a story of murder mystery, and when the kids go to sleep, they most likely still thinking about the story and trying to imagine what's going to happen next. It has an Immersive story line.

then there's the stress free animaniacs. that you can walk away and not think twice about it. It's no wonder the kids had more problems sleeping after they played manhunt2, its not the actual violence, i think its the overall experience, I think they would of had similar results, if they would of shown a good mystery but not violent movie, without showing the last 30minutes.
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