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This is Scientific American 60 seconds Tech, I'm Larry Greenemeier, got a minute?
這里是科學美國人60秒科技頻道，我是拉里·格林梅耶。
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.
視頻游戲會導致玩家氣憤且具有攻擊性。但導致這一事實的似乎不是游戲自身的暴力性。而是玩家在玩游戲的過程中逐漸積累的挫敗感。可能是在他們玩俠盜獵車手3時大開殺戮，也可能是在玩俄羅斯方塊時試圖解決一個謎團。
That's the take-away from a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
這就是人格與社會心理學雜志的一項研究結果。
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.
研究人員利用精心定制的暴力和非暴力兩種版本的游戲對600名玩家進行了測試。他們發現，即便不是暴力型游戲，游戲過于簡單或是太難不好過關，都比暴力游戲更容易激怒玩家。
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.
暴力游戲一直是人們的眾矢之的，認為它是引起暴力行為的罪魁禍首。而且有證據表明，長期玩游戲會改變大腦中具有認知功能和情感控制的區域。還有研究發現，游戲增加了兒童的侵略性。但還有另一種聲音是：游戲對玩家具有撫平情緒的功能，特別是對那些早就有心理健康問題的人。
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.
目前我們還不能下定結論，要根據新的發現鑒別這些研究結果。換句話說，不要恨游戲，要恨就恨玩家自己吧，誰叫你武力不夠高強呢。
Thanks for the minute for the Scientific American 60 Seconds Tech, I'm Larry Greenemeier.
感謝收聽科學美國人60秒科技頻道。
