Studying Studies: 25 Things Games Have Been "Proven" to Do

Here is a nice master list of video game studies and research, archived by their general conclusions. As you'll see, the studies very often contradict one another. This is organized to be as ironic as possible, by the way, not by date or something useful like that.

Video Games:

• Force children to imitate games negatively
• Damage brain functions, affecting emotional control
• Increase emotional arousal and decrease self-control brain activity
• Raise the risk of aggressive behavior
• Increase aggressive thoughts, but not behavior
• Can make you drive more aggressively
• Teach both aggression and more useful things
• Have absolutely nothing to do with aggression
• Make only aggressive kids more aggressive
• Make only angry people more aggressive
• Do not cause youth violence
• Can be healthy for some children, even violent games
• Are less emotionally involving than film and television, meaning violence is less upsetting and immersion in the world is actually less complete
• Improve visuospatial cognition (better understand what you're looking at, basically)
• Increase equality in spatial skills between men and women
• Give you less time to study
  
• Cause minor drops in time for reading and homework
• Have great educational value
• Lower your school grades (or at least your perception of them)
• Teach tolerance of the vast diversity online
• Make you less likely to own a pet
• Could cure acrophobia
• Fulfill your psychological needs
• Give you a sense of freedom and accomplishment
• Can treat ADHD

Be sure to visit those links for real details, but those are all the headline-worthy conclusions those studies showed. I suspect I'll expand this list in the future or make another post with just a list, because just comparing the conclusions side-by-side is mind-boggling.