Violent video games studied as a teaching tool (Gentile & Gentile, 2008)

Now Andrew Eisen asked some questions about the study in gamepolitics.com and I can’t help but to try to answer them. The best practice of getting the right answers is to e-mail the authors themselves, the contact info should be on the first page.
Abstract
This article presents conceptual and empiricalanalyses of several of the ‘‘best practices’’ [...]

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Parents’ mediation behaviors to video games (Nikken & Jansz, 2006)

Since John Rice had mentioned me in his blog, I couldn’t help myself to put another paper on this blog despite being in my final undergraduate year with thesis paper and grad school applications. I guess I can’t resist positive reinforcement.
Now some mentioned parenting and video games, surprisingly my PsycINFO search (Parent & video or [...]

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Technological advancement and violence exposure (Ivory & Kalyanaraman, 2007)

I am supposed to be writing something more important that, but somehow it feels more fun (or easy) to be reporting on academic studies.
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The possible impact of technological advancement on video games’ effects—particularly in the case of violent games—has often been discussed but has not been thoroughly explored by empirical research. The present investigation employed [...]

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Video Game Violence and the Female Game Player: Self- and Opponent Gender Effects on Presence and Aggressive Thoughts (Eastin, 2006)

Okay this is my last one for today… I hope. Now following Dr.Eastin’s academic trail, he wrote an article published last year. Since I’m trained in APA, I do find that the words in the title seemed so wrong. All capitalized, how strange…
Abstract
Adding depth and breadth to the general aggression model, this paper presents three [...]

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Digital game playing and direct and indirect aggression in early adolescence: The roles of age, social intelligence, and parent-child communication (Wallenius et al., 2007)

This article was very tricky and again found it by luck. They called video games as digital games, which confounds my search. Again, I seem to can’t resist writing more since that praise from John Rice, Am I that easily pleased?
Abstract
The roles of age, social intelligence and parent-child communication in moderating the association between digital [...]

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