Title Assassination generation : video games, aggression, and the psychology of killing / Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, and Kristine Paulsen, with Katie Miserany.

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New York : Little Brown and Company, 2016.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	264 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-251) and index.
Contents	It's worse than it looks : the case against the media -- Guns, drugs, and denial : common excuses for the virus of violence -- The human brain on violence : how violent video games warp the mind -- The gangbanger's trainer : how video games train kids to kill -- Fiction or reality? : true crimes and the games that may be linked to them -- Failed attempts at change -- Calling on community -- The solution -- What you can do today.
Summary	Drawing on crime statistics, social research and studies of the teenage brain, the author, one of the world's foremost experts in the field of human aggression, the roots of violence and violent crime, reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide, and what we must do about it.
Subject	Violence -- Social aspects.
	Children and violence.
	Violence in video games -- Psychological aspects.
	Video games -- Psychological aspects.
	Video games -- Social aspects.
	Homicide -- Psychological aspects.
	Youth and violence.
	Aggressiveness in adolescence.
	Violence -- Psychological aspects.
	Mass media and children.
	Television and children.
	Violence on television.
	Murder -- Psychological aspects.
	Child psychology.
	Violence in mass media -- Psychological aspects.
	PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent.
	PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society.
Added Author	Paulsen, Kristine, author.
	Miserany, Katie, author.
Added Title	Video games, aggression, and the psychology of killing
ISBN	9780316265935
	0316265934

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