Comments on: Sensitization and desensitization in a video game experiment (Staude-Müller et al., 2008)

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By: Emotional memory in violent video game players and non-players (Bowen & Spaniol, 2009) « VG Researcher – Psychology

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:46:53 +0000

[...] International Affective Picture System: 300 pictures (28 violent, 72 negative-non-violent, 100 positive, 100 neutral) are used to assess participants memory recall. This was used in another similar study (Staude-Muller, 2008) [...]

By: The motivating role of violence in video games (Przybylski et al., 2009) « VG Researcher - Psychology

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:44:37 +0000

[...] to base. A similar game would be Solid Snake catching monkeys a la Ape Escape. A little tangent, Staude-Müller (2008) also used game mods for one of his [...]

By: Wai Yen Tang

Wai Yen Tang — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:45:58 +0000

Wow, thank you for your time in providing some clarifications. It makes better sense now.

By: F. Staude-Mueller

F. Staude-Mueller — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:43:45 +0000

sorry that our wording obviously was a bit confusing.
We didn´t see a difference between aggressive and violent cues. The distinction we made was between aggressive cues (e.g. guns, knives or threatened woman; associated with aggressive acts themselfs, if you want) and aversive cues (corpses, wounds etc; associated with suffering).
Just look up the pics in IAPS – codes are given in the appendix – to get an impression what the difference was.
For aggressive cues both kinds of effects (sensitizing and desensitizing) were plausible from a theoretical point of view – a 2-sided hypothesis, so to say. maybe that´s what caused the confusion.
The sample was half undergrads. The other half didn´t go to university. We didn´t want to go the covienient way and looked for a non-student sample, but couldn´t keep it up. Though we at least tried.

Hope that helps
FSM