Backbytes: Computer games make you kinder, claims ridiculous research

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Who on Earth actually pays for this stuff?

According to research - which is tabloid-code for having completely misunderstood some nonsense in a fancy "journal" - playing violent computers games could actually make people kinder. That's a...

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