Playing video games increases high risk-taking behaviours
A new study published in the journal Injury Prevention has found that playing video games causes people to act in a risky manner, such as ignoring the red light, speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road and using their mobile phones during driving.
Such risky behaviours are common among those who are adventurous.
It is not the first study with the same result.
“I think racing gamers should be paid more attention in their real driving,” Mingming Deng of the School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China, said. He added that the results from other studies strengthen the evidence in this one.
The study found that violent racing games increased one’s tendency towards risk taking behaviours on the Vienna Risk-Taking Test and increased physiological excitement.
