Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers

This means war (Image: ColorBlind Images/Getty)

From New Scientist:


Victorious gamers enjoy a surge of testosterone – but only if their vanquished foe is a stranger. When male gamers beat friends in a shoot-em-up video game, levels of the potent sex hormone plummeted.

This suggests that multiplayer video games tap into the same mechanisms as warfare, where testosterone's effect on aggression is advantageous.

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