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Forget violence: Do co-op games make us less aggressive?

[Psychologists are starting to examine the flipside of the video game violence coin and finding that violent games can actually lead to more trust and cooperation between players given the right circumstances. What’s more, game designers might be able to capitalize on it.] One of the topics that’s conspicuously absent from my writings on the psychology of video games is that of the relationship between violence and video games. The short version of the reason …