Personality factors, subject gender, and the effects of aggressive video games on aggression in adolescents

Winkel, Mark H.; Novak, Dawn M.; Hopson, Helen

doi:10.1016/0092-6566(87)90008-0

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“…Thus, hostile attributional bias appears to be influenced more by the personality variable of trait hostility than by short-term exposure to comic book violence. This finding is consistent with previous research showing that personality variables may be stronger predictors of violent thoughts and behaviors than short-term exposure to media violence (Anderson, 1997;Walker & Morley, 1991;Winkel, Novak & Hopson, 1987). However, additional research is necessary to see if long-term exposure to comic books will increase their relative influence on hostile attributional bias, as compared to trait hostility.…”

Section: Discussion Preliminary Analysessupporting

confidence: 91%

Violent Comic Books and Perceptions of Ambiguous Provocation Situations

Kirsh¹,

Olczak²

2000

Media Psychology

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Section: Discussion Preliminary Analysessupporting

confidence: 91%

Violent Comic Books and Perceptions of Ambiguous Provocation Situations

Kirsh¹,

Olczak²

2000

Media Psychology

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“…Two additional experimental studies of violent video games and aggression found no effect of violence (Graybill, Strawniak, Hunter, & O'Leary, 1987;Winkel, Novak, & Hopson, 1987). Interestingly, of the six video game studies reviewed here, only the Graybill et al (1987) study used games pretested and selected to be similar on a number ofdimensions (e.g., difficulty, excitement, enjoyment).…”

Section: Video Games and Aggression: Experimental Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life.

Anderson¹,

Dill²

2000

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Two studies examined violent video game effects on aggression-related variables. Study 1 found that real-life violent video game play was positively related to aggressive behavior and delinquency. The relation was stronger for individuals who are characteristically aggressive and for men. Academic achievement was negatively related to overall amount of time spent playing video games. In Study 2, laboratory exposure to a graphically violent video game increased aggressive thoughts and behavior. In both studies, men had a more hostile view of the world than did women. The results from both studies are consistent with the General Affective Aggression Model, which predicts that exposure to violent video games will increase aggressive behavior in both the short term (e.g., laboratory aggression) and the long term (e.g., delinquency).On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold launched an assault on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, murdering 13 and wounding 23 before turning the guns on themselves. Although it is impossible to know exactly what caused these teens to attack their own classmates and teachers, a number of factors probably were involved. One possible contributing factor is violent video games. Harris and Klebold enjoyed playing the bloody, shoot-'em-up video game Doom, a game licensed by the U.S. military to train soldiers to effectively kill. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks Internet hate groups, found in its archives a copy of Harris' web site with a version of Doom that he had customized. In his version there are two shooters, each with extra weapons and unlimited ammunition, and the other people in the game can't fight back. For a class project, Harris and Klebold made a videotape that was similar to their customized version of Doom. In the video, Harris and Klebold dress in trench coats, carry guns, and kill school athletes. They acted out their videotaped performance in real life less than a year later. An investigator associated with the Wiesenthal Center said Harris and Klebold were "playing out their game in God mode" (Pooley, 1999, p. 32).Entertainment media affects our lives. What behaviors children and adults consider appropriate comes, in part, from the lessons we learn from television and the movies (e.g., Huesmann & Miller,

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“…[16][17][18] Collectively these studies reinforce that game-play increases the propensity to behaviorally aggress. Given the inappropriateness of broad behavioral measures for adult samples, 19 the question of which psychological mechanism might explain the propensity of computer games to engender aggression is unanswerable on the basis of any of the aformentioned behavioral data.…”

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Affect and the Computer Game Player: The Effect of Gender, Personality, and Game Reinforcement Structure on Affective Responses to Computer Game-Play

Chumbley

Griffiths

2006

CyberPsychology & Behavior

126

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Previous research on computer games has tended to concentrate on their more negative effects (e.g., addiction, increased aggression). This study departs from the traditional clinical and social learning explanations for these behavioral phenomena and examines the effect of personality, in-game reinforcement characteristics, gender, and skill on the emotional state of the game-player. Results demonstrated that in-game reinforcement characteristics and skill significantly effect a number of affective measures (most notably excitement and frustration). The implications of the impact of game-play on affect are discussed with reference to the concepts of "addiction" and "aggression." 308

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Personality factors, subject gender, and the effects of aggressive video games on aggression in adolescents

Cited by 84 publications

References 20 publications

Violent Comic Books and Perceptions of Ambiguous Provocation Situations

Violent Comic Books and Perceptions of Ambiguous Provocation Situations

Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life.

Affect and the Computer Game Player: The Effect of Gender, Personality, and Game Reinforcement Structure on Affective Responses to Computer Game-Play

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