The concern that violent video games may promote aggression or reduce empathy in its players is pervasive and given the popularity of these games their psychological impact is an urgent issue for society at large. Contrary to the custom, this topic has also been passionately debated in the scient...
Weber R, Ritterfeld U, Mathiak K: Does Playing Violent Video Games Induce Aggression? Empirical Evidence of a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Study Media Psychol 2006, 8:39-60.Weber,R,Ritterfeld,U,Mathiak,K.Does playing violent video games induce aggression? Empirical evidence of a ...
It is a widespread concern that violent video games promote aggression, reduce pro-social behaviour, increase impulsivity and interfere with cognition as well as mood in its players. Previous experimental studies have focussed on short-term effects of violent video gameplay on aggression, yet there ...
Do Violent Video Games Increase Aggression?With the development of the Internet and technology, video games are becoming increasingly popular among people especially the youngsters. However, it is a controversial issue that has raised wide public concern. In my view, we should hold a cautious attitu...
and "Sonic the Hedgehog" -- or older games on the Atari -- who are now adults and still love video games. In many ways, the video game industry has grown up alongside them, offering more sophisticated and violent games like "Call of Duty" that are akin to R-rated action movies. In...
Does Playing Violent Video Games Induce Aggression? Empirical Evidence of a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study This study aims to advance the media effects debate concerning violent video games. Meta-analytic reviews reveal a small but noticeable association between... R Weber,U Ritterfeld,K...
The study restricted its attention to games with violent content, and showed that greater measured engagement in play of such games does manifest itself in higher scores on an existing aggression questionnaire (AQ). They infer that this association may be an indicator of the risk that deep ...
Some researchers hypothesized that playing violent video games has an effect on the gamer's real life, e.g. the confrontation with aggression in the video game leads to aggressive behavior in the real world (Gentile and Gentile, 2007). This view was corroborated with meta-analytic studies (...
The purpose of the study was to examine the priming effect of exposure to violent pictures on implicitaggression in a sample of 94 Chinese college students, and to verify the validity of General Aggression Model(GAM) and Cognitive New-association Model (CNM). Violent and nonviolent pictures, as...
to prove thatviolentmovies‚ games‚ and television shows can influenceviolentbehavior. Multiple cases have shown that individuals playing video games‚ especiallyviolentones‚ can lead to aggression.Childrenwho tend to play these types of games lose control rather easily‚ they tend to ...