Losers study found video games are more likely to harass women

• July 21, 2015
• In the US and Canada section

Men who have done wrong in the games, rather bully players

At least in terms of video games - A new study has found that men who harass women online real losers.

Two researchers analyzed how men treated women playing 163 games Halo. 3

Men who done wrong in games that responded by enemy players.

Male winners were generally friendly to lose other players while men player makes unpleasant comments.

"The men of low status have to lose most of a hierarchical reconfiguration respond to the threat of competitors women asked," the researchers, from the University of New South Wales and the University of Miami in Ohio write. "High-status males with less fear was positive."

In Halo 3, players are anonymous and only during the game with the voice to interact a few times. Most Halo players are men.

If done incorrectly, the player raises negative statements against women and men declarations submitted for profit.

Writing "As men often rely on aggression to maintain its dominant social status, increasing hostility to women may by men of lower status an attempt to ignore the behavior of a woman who was" the researchers conclude.

Male players were ejected and heard female voices in the game. The researchers believe that their findings suggest that young people should learn that the loss of women do not "socially debilitating".

The results also suggest that video games can reinforce gender segregation and promoting potentially sexist attitudes, particularly worrying because many "players" are young people.