Violent Video Games Can Improve Teamwork, Reduce Bias

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A new study finds that violent video games can improve teamwork, reduce bias and have positive effects on player's attitudes toward others. Take that Jack Thompson!

Canadian researchers, whose earlier work challenged assumptions about violent video games’ links to aggression, have come out with a new study that suggests when people from different social groups cooperate in a video game — even a super violent one — their impressions of one another improve and prejudices diminish.
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The first rule of Jack Thompson is you don't talk about Jack Thompson!

Seriously, are you trying to summon him?
 
Pleease... they'll just spin it to ... "Now they'll cooperate to kill even more people" or something like that.
 
This is common sense, considering how warfare has often united a people, since it pits the members against a common foe. But as was said, it also builds resentment among the group to assign blame should the team badly lose. In a good balanced game or victory though, for sure, high fives all around.
 
I thought zerg clans in Eve had proved that long ago, but haven't even been gaming much myself lately.
 
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