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A large volume of published research now exists on the effects of video games, and more especially on the effects of games with violent themes. There have been a few attempts to collate all this evidence at the level of ‘effect magnitudes’ through meta-analyses to establish its overall status. This chapter examines the positions adopted by major evidence reviews and meta-analyses, and finds that there remain conflicted positions. Thus, there is no overall agreement about the nature and strength of the effects of playing violent video games.
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Gunter, B. (2016). What Is the Overall State of Evidence Concerning the Effects of Violent Video Games. In: Does Playing Video Games Make Players More Violent?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57985-0_10
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