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Re: Bad software makes people aggressive

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On 2014-04-09, john <nospam@no.net> wrote:
>> A paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests
>> games that make the player feel stupid also make them aggressive.
>> As coauthor Richard Ryan, a motivational psychologist at the
>> University of Rochester said When people feel they have no control
>> over the outcome of a game, that leads to aggression,� he explains.
>> We saw that in our experiments. If you press someone�s competencies,
>> they�ll become more aggressive, and our effects held up whether the
>> games were violent or not.�
>
> Sorry I'm not too eduma-cated. Player perceived competence?
> Is it basically saying that getting frustrated can lead to aggressive 
> thoughts?
> tdk wrote:

I think the summary pretty much simplifies the jargon: 'games that make
the player feel stupid also make them aggressive.'  So (if you're
American, at least): play a hard game, lose, feel frustrated, go out and
buy a couple of semi-automatic weapons and military equipment, and then
head to your local elementary school where you can assuage your feelings
of inadequacy by blowing away as many 5 year olds as possible before
turning the gun on yourself in a fit of self pity.  Makes perfect sense.

[I'm being a bit facetious obviously; anyone who wants to turn this into
a classic Usenet discussion on gun control is invited to drop in at
talk.politics.guns for fun and excitement.]  :)

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Bad software makes people aggressive "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-09 07:31 -0500
  Re: Bad software makes people aggressive "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-09 07:34 -0500
  Re: Bad software makes people aggressive john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-04-09 13:57 -0800
    Re: Bad software makes people aggressive RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-10 09:33 +0000

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