Driving Pisses People Off. Shocker!
March 31, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Gaming
It’s not the first person shooters that piss people off, it’s the driving games.
That’s what Dr Simon Goodson and Sarah Pearson from Huddersfield University will be saying in their presentation tomorrow [tomorrow for me anyway] at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference.
There’s been other research that kinda sorta maybe showed that shooters caused aggression but those studies are a bit old and the variety of games wasn’t exactly extensive. This study used the Xbox 360, a FPS, Project Gotham Racing, and a 3D table tennis game.
30 people [18 to 45] played the games and “changes in their physical responses (EEG, …read more
