Playing Games

Today, many people play games to relieve their stresses, find new friends, improve their imaginations, having fun, etc. There are some parties who don’t agree with the statement above. They only think that playing games can give you bad grades/ marks at school, bad social life, bad health, etc. However, this is not true. Douglas Gentile, an assistant professor of psychology and one of the country's top researchers on the effects of media on children said that video games together with his father who is a leading researcher on effective teaching and a distinguished teaching professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York said that playing violent video games (the worst type of video game) teaches aggression and motivate gamers to master skills that are required to solve difficult problems and cope with the developing environment. East California University states that playing casual games is a good way to relieve stresses and tensions. A source from http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web3/mschlimme.html states that playing video games can make a person become more aggressive but not always in violent matters. He/she can become more involved in the social world and engage communications with other people. The source also states that playing video games can motivate a person to solve a complex problem by improving his/her imagination. Playing games is not always negative; many people have started to realize the benefit of playing games.