Addiction and aggression within the MMO context (Grusser, Thalemann & Griffiths, 2007)

So we have some researchers asking whether there’s a connection between aggression and addiction within video games. Mark Griffiths is someone I recognize in the psych literature who has done extensive research on addiction, especially gambling.
A simple reasoning from the authors is that according to the lit.: violent video games increase aggression in players, while [...]

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Appeal of online First Person Shooters (Jansz & Tanis, 2007)

Here’s something to counter argue anti-video games advocates claims of gamers being loners in regards to FPS games on the online world. Anyways, to the authors’ knowledge FPS games are not researched in depth, but they are peripherally. Even the claims of increase in hand-eye coordination is based on the definition of “those that have [...]

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Anger personality trait a factor in VG influence on aggressive behaviour (Giumetti & Markey, 2007)

I think my first blog entry wasn’t that great, maybe I should continue and improve.
Now continuing on to another study that’s published in the Journal of Personality Research by Giumetti & Markey.
In this study, Giumetti and Markey looked into the relationship between personality trait of anger and aggressive thoughts after playing video games, again they [...]

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