Violent video games can actually increase a player's moral awareness

Go ahead and play Grand Theft Auto V, where you can run over anyone with a car. Shoot it out in Call of Duty to your heart’s content. And make those tough decisions in games like The Last of Us and Watch Dogs about whether to pull the trigger or not. None of it is going to make you more violent, new research claims — and it may actually make have the opposite effect.

A new study (as Gamasutra reported) concludes that violent video games may actually make players more sensitive to violence in real life and help them become more aware of the moral codes that they are violating in games, even as these works receive blame for the alleged roles they play in school shootings and other acts.