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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"violent video games"”.
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Violent Video Games and Symptoms of Distress and Trauma
… of the research involving detrimental effects of violent video games has focused primarily on aggression and desensitization of pain. To date there is no known research that examines whether video games can cause traumatic symptoms. However, there is research that suggests horror movies cause …
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Effects of violent video games on sexual aggression in males
… was to investigate the link between short-term violent video game play and engagement in sexually aggressive behaviors. In this study, participants were randomly assigned to play 15 minutes of Grand Theft Auto (experimental group) or Tetris Evolution (control group) on an Xbox. After game play, …
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Violent video games and aggressive behavior: mortality salience and the hostile attribution bias
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Violent video game exposure and physical aggression in adolescence: Tests of the General Aggression Model
… Model indicates that long term exposure to violent video games increases aggression by altering players' aggressive personality (Anderson & Bushman, 2002). In this dissertation, cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of this mediated relation were conducted to determine if violent video game …
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Violent Video Game Playing, Moral Reasoning, and Attitudes Towards Violence in Adolescents: Is There a Connection?
… in Ontario, the relationship among adolescents’ violent video game playing patterns, habits and attitudes, their levels of moral reasoning, and their attitudes towards violence in real life was investigated. In addition, gender differences were addressed. The mixed-methodology was employed …
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Beyond the Influences of Television: the New World of Home Video Games
This study is an exploratory study of the uses of video games by children, why children play video games, and the possible influences video games are having on children. While numerous studies have focused on the influences of television on children, little attention has been focused on video games …
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The Effects of Profanity in Violent Video Game Content on Players' Hostile Expectations, Accessibility of Aggressive Thoughts, Aggressive Feelings, and Other Responses
Although the effects of violent video games on aggression in users have been researched extensively and the resulting body of research shows that violent video games can increase aggressive behaviors, aggression-related feelings and thoughts, and physiological arousal, no empirical studies to date …
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Perceptions of school shooters: How the race of a school shooter and his video game playing habits influence observers’ explanatory attributions about his crime
… 2 (White vs. Black shooter) x 2 (shooter played violent vs. nonviolent video games) between-subject ANOVA to determine if these variables would differentially influence the participants’ levels of agreement with various causal attributions about why a mass shooter would engage in such an act of …
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Exploring factors associated with aggressive behaviour in adolescents
… review investigating the relationship between video game violence and aggressive behaviours in adolescents. The results of the review indicated that there is some evidence to suggest a link exists between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behaviour. Chapter two contains a piece of …
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Factoring in gamer identity : the application of social identity theory and flow to understanding video game violence effects
The video game industry has become integrated into American lives and has continued to grow at a steady rate. This project utilizes social identity theory, self-categorization theory, and flow theory to examine differences in aggression and processing of video games between three gamer types: …
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The effect of violent video game playing on gamer's views of victims of crime
… was designed to explore the relationship between violent video game play and attitudes towards victims. As the violent genre of games become more popular and as the graphics and content becomes even more realistic and immersive, there has been concern that this media form offers a different …