The always interesting Dr. Cheryl Olson made an appearance G4's X-Play program yesterday.
Olson is co-author of the popular Grand Theft Childhood.
While discussing game violence issues with host Adam Sessler, Olson touched on violent games and their relationship to topics like bullying and depression.
She also voiced concerns about California's contested video game law and explained why it can be difficult for non-academics to make sense of video game research.
Cheater87: R18+ heading for Australian parliament http://www.gamespot.com/news/6350339.html02/14/2012 - 1:14am
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Uncharted NES: David Jaffe Rails Against Storytelling Games- http://slashdot.org/palm/10/12/02/13/1943236_1.shtml02/13/2012 - 5:04pm
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DorthLous: Australian government holding anti-piracy talk behind closed door: http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/13/govt-holds-second-secret-anti-piracy-meeting/02/13/2012 - 12:31pm
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DorthLous: SONY new CEO says Hardware is important, but the future lies in content and service: http://www.techworld.com.au/article/414925/incoming_sony_ceo_hot_gadgets_aren_t_enough_anymore02/13/2012 - 12:27pm
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Andrew Eisen: That article is over five years old, Uncharted. A fun blast from the past though.02/12/2012 - 10:47pm
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Uncharted NES: Critics: 'Left Behind' game glorifies violence- http://tinyurl.com/wu64s02/12/2012 - 4:34pm
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Zen: I felt Brutal Legends was a funny & beautiful look at the world of rock from Double Fines point of view. The only parts I wasn't hot for were the RTS bits as it felt forced. Otherwise fantastic.02/12/2012 - 1:34pm
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DorthLous: Passed 1.5M$. And I'd also say that Brutal Legend is far from being a bad game. I just think it was a few levels under what people expected from the people working on the project.02/11/2012 - 8:25am
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Technogeek: Brutal Legend wasn't bad so much as "marketing had no idea how the game actually played", causing it to suffer accordingly.02/10/2012 - 10:38pm
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RedMage: It looks the CIA's website has been DDOS'ed. Anon?02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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RedMage: Brutal Legend.02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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ddrfr33k: Has anything Tim Schafer ever made been of crap caliber? I'm struggling to think of one...02/10/2012 - 7:37pm
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Guamish: I think it is in good hands. Tim did a game for the GDC award show and that was fun for how short it was.02/10/2012 - 12:22pm
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Andrew Eisen: It'll be tragic if the game ultimately sucks.02/10/2012 - 12:17pm
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james_fudge: $1.3 million02/10/2012 - 11:32am
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Uncharted NES: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA [Update: ... Yet]- http://tinyurl.com/7r2twrg02/10/2012 - 11:21am
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Andrew Eisen: Damn. Double Fine's Kickstarter fund has already passed a million dollars.02/09/2012 - 8:16pm
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Andrew Eisen: Audrey didn't quote the sassy parts. Here's IGN's article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1218359p1.html And here's my original post: http://tinyurl.com/7y68a3902/09/2012 - 7:50pm
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james_fudge: I hope you some said something sassy! Where's the link?02/09/2012 - 7:46pm
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Andrew Eisen: Hey, neat. IGN quoted a blog I had writen only two hours earlier. I certainly timed that one pretty well.02/09/2012 - 7:38pm
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Comments
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
See needs to be on more popular news network like CNN and NBC. Of course, they would refuse her.
Her book is amazing! YOu guys need to read it!
"We may be human, but we're still animals" -Steve Vai (World's greatest guitarist!)
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
The only problem with having someone like her on X-Play is she is talking to people who already agree with her. Too bad there can't be a sensible conversation like that on a major network.
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
The fact that this woman used both of the terms "big daddy" and "headcrab" correctly instantly gives her a lot more credibility in my mind. Did she actually publish any scientific papers? If so i probably have access to them...
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
You can find a list of some of our research papers from this study at
http://www.grandtheftchildhood.com/GTC/Research_Papers.html
--Larry Kutner
Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Center for Mental Health and Media
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
if she's a casual gamer then this lady is full of win.
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
Oh Yes,
Thank you Dr. Olson. I've read your book and used it for my English class ( my english class is argument perspectives) to prove that video game does not cause real-life violence.
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
Psychology:
A study of thoughts, feelings and behaviour of humans and animals.
(Since that thoughts and feelings are impossible to observe you have to focus on the behaviour.)
Psychological Study:
To find out what is normal for a certain group of people when presented with a certain stimuli.
Correlation:
That a certain stimuli leads to a certain positive or negative behaviour in humans and animals.
Generalizations:
A carefully adjusted statement that must be used ONLY if there is a strong correlation that a certain stimuli leads to a desired or undesired behaviour. These Generalizations are NOT meant to be thrown around lightly because that could lead to society missinterpreting the results of the Psychological study and therefore leading to unfair discrimination to a certain group of society.
That is how I understand Psychology when I was learning about it in high school, sadly I don't see that sort of reasoning on the news because sometimes I feel that the news only focuses on something that makes news, and not really about the real truth that may not really attract news.
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
Summery:
There is no proof of cause of any actions in relation to someone playing video games, though there may be minor differences in behavior because of the video games, it isn't something they wouldn't already do if there was a different stimuli such as a movie, music type mediums, or even issues with a relationship, work, or other such typical life events. Bringing it all around to the fact that most the studies we see, especially the ones JT references, are Bullshit! (I love that show.)
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Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
Yup, JT pulls his "scientific" claims out his ass as usual, Yet he claims (people who have real proof and people like us who are smarter than his stupid self) as "Fascist Morons", Yup, This is a lady i can turn to in finding info about issues between video game violence and real world violence.
I gotta get that book soon.
Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
Aw, sweet!
Now let's see her debate Jack.
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Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
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Re: G4's Adam Sessler Interviews Grand Theft Childhood Author
Since the disbarment, no media wants to touch him with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole.