thejediknighthusezni said:

I wonder whether GTA is producing drivers with greater situational awareness and ability to act.

Oh, I had forgotten about that! GTA has never been my type of game and I've never really had any interest in it, but for some reason I did get into Vice City for a while. It marks one game where I did notice an effect on my behavior, I found it tempting to drive faster and more aggressively. I've always been a really safe driver, and these urges were easy to control, but I did notice them. It did not however, give me any urges to kill hookers, run over pedestrians, run from or shoot cops, or sell drugs from the back of ice cream trucks.