The Effects of Extremely Violent Comic Books on Social Information Processing

Kirsh, Steven J.; Olczak, Paul V.

doi:10.1177/088626002237400

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“…The results of this study are consistent with earlier research finding relationships between exposure to violent media and aggressive biases in social information processing [Anderson and Bushman, 2002;Anderson and Dill, 2000;Bushman and Geen, 1990;Huesmann et al, 2003;Kirsh, 1998;Kirsh and Olczak, 2002;Kirsh et al, 2005;Lynch et al, 2001]. In addition, our results are consistent with Bushman's [1998] contention that exposure to violent media primes an individual's aggressive network and that, in turn, such networks influence the processing and interpretation of social information.…”

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Violent video game play impacts facial emotion recognition

Kirsh

Mounts

2007

Aggressive Behavior

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This study assessed the speed of recognition of facial emotional expressions (happy and angry) as a function of violent video game play. Color photos of calm facial expressions morphed to either an angry or a happy facial expression. Participants were asked to make a speeded identification of the emotion (happiness or anger) during the morph. Typically, happy faces are identified faster than angry faces (the happy-face advantage). Results indicated that playing a violent video game led to a reduction in the happy face advantage. Implications of these findings are discussed with respect to the current models of aggressive behavior.

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Violent video game play impacts facial emotion recognition

Kirsh

Mounts

2007

Aggressive Behavior

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“…The results of this study are consistent with earlier work finding relations between exposure to violent media and aggressive biases in social information processing (Anderson & Dill, 2000;Bushman & Geen, 1990;Kirsh, 1998;Kirsh & Olczak, 2002;Lynch et al, 2001). For instance, Bushman (1998) found that playing violent video games resulted in faster RT when identifying strings of letters as words or nonwords in a lexical decision task.…”

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Violent Video Games Induce an Affect Processing Bias

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Olczak²,

Mounts³

2005

Media Psychology

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“…This reduction of the happy-face advantage in the high violent media consumption group suggests an increased negative processing bias in the recognition of emotional expressions . Thus, the results of the current study are consistent with earlier work finding relationships between exposure to violent media and aggressive biases in social information processing (Anderson & Dill, 2000;Bushman & Geen, 1990;Kirsh, 1998;Kirsh & Olczak, 2002;Kirsh et al, 2005;Lynch, Gentile, Olson, & van Brederode, 2001). For instance, Bushman (1998) found that playing violent video games resulted in faster RT when identifying strings of letters as aggressive words or nonwords in a lexical decision task.…”

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“…Additional research on social information processing has found that playing violent video games (Kirsh, 1998) and reading violent comic books (Kirsh & Olczak, 2002) increases the likelihood of inferring hostile intent to the actions of another, even though the intent of that individual is unclear. Taken together, these findings suggest violent media produces attentional biases that affect ambiguous and unambiguous processing of information.…”

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Violent Media Consumption and the Recognition of Dynamic Facial Expressions

Kirsh

Mounts²,

Olczak

2006

J Interpers Violence

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This study assessed the speed of recognition of facial emotional expressions (happy and angry) as a function of violent media consumption. Color photos of calm facial expressions morphed to either an angry or a happy facial expression. Participants were asked to make a speeded identification of the emotion (happiness or anger) during the morph. Results indicated that, independent of trait aggressiveness, participants high in violent media consumption responded slower to depictions of happiness and faster to depictions of anger than participants low in violent media consumption. Implications of these findings are discussed with respect to current models of aggressive behavior.

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The Effects of Extremely Violent Comic Books on Social Information Processing

Cited by 31 publications

References 27 publications

Violent video game play impacts facial emotion recognition

Violent video game play impacts facial emotion recognition

Violent Video Games Induce an Affect Processing Bias

Violent Media Consumption and the Recognition of Dynamic Facial Expressions

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