Violent Comic Books and Perceptions of Ambiguous Provocation Situations

Kirsh, Steven J.; Olczak, Paul V.

doi:10.1207/s1532785xmep0201_3

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“…Thus, one possibility for the increase in aggressive behavior following video game play ) is that there is a greater likelihood of responding to a variety of provocation situations with aggression. In fact, research has demonstrated that individuals who are depressed (Quiggle, Garber, Panak, & Dodge, 1992) or are high in trait anger (Kirsh & Olczak, 2000) interpret ambiguous provocation situations (i.e., an individual gets hurt, but the intent of the provocateur may be either benign or malevolent) as stemming from hostile intent. Consistent with this finding that violent video game exposure influences attentional bias, research on mood congruent memory suggests that individuals with a negative mood are more likely to remember negatively valenced information better than other emotionally valenced information (Fiedler, Nickel, Muehlfriedel, & Unkelbach, 2001).…”

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Violent Video Games Induce an Affect Processing Bias

Kirsh¹,

Olczak²,

Mounts³

2005

Media Psychology

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Violent Video Games Induce an Affect Processing Bias

Kirsh¹,

Olczak²,

Mounts³

2005

Media Psychology

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“…For the current study, responses were summed to create a total trait aggressiveness score. Previous research has shown that individuals high in trait anger and hostility process social information more negatively than individuals low in trait anger and hostility (e.g., Epps & Kendall, 1995;Kirsh & Olczak, 2000). Thus, the summary score from the AQ will be entered as a covariate in subsequent analyses.…”

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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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“…Recent research suggests this is the case. For instance, studies involving comic books (Kirsh & Olczak, 2000) and video games (Lynch, Gentile, Olson, & van Brederode, 2001) have demonstrated links between media violence and inferring hostile intent to the actions of another, even though the intent of that individual is unclear (Dill, Anderson, Anderson, & Deuser, 1997;Dodge, 1980). Dodge (1986) contends that individuals act aggressively and perceive hostility (when none is present) due to biases in social information processing (SIP).…”

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