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From the Vault: Toy Guns

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is There Evidence That Seeing Weapons Increases Aggressive Thoughts?

i have a pretty strong gut feeling that, like gun psychology, research is an area of research where there are probably some people messing around in this field with some kind of political axe to grind one way or another. And so you probably could get some individual studies that are less objective than one would yes. There's plenty of room for cherry picking from these studies as well. But anyway, with regard to this particular literature, what did the researchers find? How does publication bias affect the weapon's effect? Well, it looks like it does not erase it, but it does appear to reduce magnitude of it,. It occurred inside and outside the lab for many kinds of weapons, including swords, knives

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