Instead, research has shown that they have higher aggression levels after a game, Bushman said.

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Granted, the U.S. Supreme Court didn't buy that argument in 2011 when it considered a California law regulating the sale of violent games to minors, and criticized the quality of the research attempting to link violent games with aggression more broadly.

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The idea was to create a lifelike subject with controllable wings, as part of research testing a hypothesis about male displays of aggression in the species.

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Despite research showing that competition might be a factor leading to aggression, addiction, and violence, the developmental benefits of activities such as team sports are hardly questioned.

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"Research shows in the short term our own concepts of aggression are activated in the brain when we watch these shows, and we are primed to behave aggressively, " said psychologist Sarah Coyne.

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We must research, deliberate and establish a consensus on the actual cause of aggression in our schools.

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Despite findings in recent research studies that conclusively refute the causal link between violence in video games and aggression in children, the speculation about such a causal link continues in the political sphere.

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