简介：
Being Bad at Video Games Ups Aggression
菜鸟们，放开游戏机！
A custom-designed video game that frustrated players left them at least as aggressive after playing as did other games famous for their violence. Larry Greenemeier reports.
一款超级虐心的游戏对玩家造成的影响不亚于一款以暴力而闻名的游戏。
撰文/播音 拉里•格林迈耶（Larry Greenemeier）
翻译 李轩
Video game playing can make you angry or aggressive. But it seems that the key factor may not be the violence. It’s the player’s incompetence at the game that’s behind the ramped-up emotions, whether they’re upping their kill count in Grand Theft Auto 3 or simply trying to solve a puzzle in Tetris.
玩电脑游戏也会让你恼怒或者有暴力倾向。但可能关键原因不是游戏本身包含的暴力，而是玩家在游戏中感觉到力不从心造成的情绪上升，无论玩家是在《侠盗飞车3》中提升杀人数，还是正绞尽脑汁解决一个《俄罗斯方块》中的困局。
That’s the take-away from a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Andrew K. Przybylski et al, Competence-Impeding Electronic Games and Players’ Aggressive Feelings, Thoughts, and Behaviors]
一项发表在《个性与社会心理学》期刊上的研究得出了如上结论。
Researchers tested violent and nonviolent variations of a custom-designed game on 600 players. They found that poorly designed or overly difficult games left participants as enraged, if not more so, than violent games did.
研究人员让600名玩家玩一款特意设计的游戏的暴力或非暴力版本。他们发现有设计缺陷或者极度困难的游戏会使参与者暴怒，而且不亚于暴力游戏。
Violent games have long been blamed for subsequent violent behavior in players. And some research finds that long-term play changes regions in the brain associated with cognitive function and emotional control. Additional studies say such games increase aggression in children. But other investigators say the games actually have a calming effect on players, especially those with a preexisting mental health condition.
长期以来，暴力游戏一直被认为是玩家暴力行为的罪魁祸首。并且也有研究表明长期玩会改变大脑中与认知功能和情绪控制有关的区域。还有一些研究认为暴力游戏增加了孩子暴力倾向。不过，一些其他的调查发现游戏对玩家的影响并不那么明显，尤其是对那些心理健康状况良好的人。
All those research efforts may need to be re-examined in light of the new finding. In other words, don’t hate the game, hate the player. Or at least his lack of skills.
鉴于这个新发现，所有这些研究工作也许都需要重新审视。换句话说，错不在游戏，而在玩家。或者至少错在他手残。
( 题图来源：Flappy Bird)
