Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Larry Nelson, Mormon 1 through 6.

Scholars who publish research about the games that we play and the things that we watch,

they get a lot of pushback.

Nobody wants to think that what they watch or play

is affecting them.

Arguably, the thing that scholars who study media violence

here the most is, I play violent video games and I haven't killed

anybody well give that individual a prize one incredibly huge accomplishment

you have restrained yourself enough after playing a video game that you haven't killed anybody.

Well that obviously settles it.

Mormon was wrong. God was wrong. There is no need to discuss violence. Do you remember this science experiment as a kid

that we found so fascinating when we were young where we would take a white flower and you put those flowers in different

containers of water, colored water and over time by being in that environment, what happened to the flowers?

They changed color.

They took on the color of the environments they were in. Let me share just a few quick studies.

Thinking about this from a spiritual perspective, okay? A few studies, I wish I could claim them as mine, they're not, they're

brilliantly done, but I'd like to share a few. In this first study, the

researchers measured mood. Simply mood in a group of university students

playing a violent video game for 15 minutes versus a group that played a bowling game and then asked them to report their mood.

Violent video game participants after just 15 minutes reported more feelings of anger, annoyance, and irritation. Just 15 minutes. What of the

environment that started to seep in? In study two, researchers measures something called cardiac coherence. This is simply a measure of stress, which is when our breathing and our heart rate aren't in synchrony. They had one group play violent

video games and another play nonviolent video games for 20 minutes. The group

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