How Violent Games Affect Human Behavior A Study has found video games have no long-term effects on a persons empathy,suggesting it is not lessened by long term gaming. Previous studies have controversially pointed at a link between gaming and a lack of Empathy, but they often only examine the short-term effects.this latest study , published in the journal Frontier in Psychology and led by Dr Gregor Szycik from the Hannover Medical School in Germany instead looked at the longer term effects and found no correlation. "We interpreted our result as evidence against the desensitization hypothesis and suggest that the impact of violent media on emotional processing may be rather acute and shot-lived" the researchers wrote in there paper. The Study involved group of 30 people , 15 who played violent games regularly (four hours a day on average), and 15 control subjects who had not played violent video game. the games include things like Call of duty , Counter S...