Aggressive players have aggressive personality (Peng et al., 2008)

Every time I read an journal article on video games, I always end up fantasizing a research project that would seem worthwhile, much like how a fujoshi fantasizes the unlikely pairing of two male manga characters together.
Here’s the line that triggered my fantasy: “thus the game-playing experience can vary to a great extent among players [...]

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Gender, ethnicity and social gratification as predictors for video game play (Green & McNeese, 2008)

Before I start filling left-out details from the abstract, I’d like rant some of the bad writing of this paper because after reading the first few paragraphs of this study, I had the impression that the authors don’t have a positive opinion on video games.
Abstract
This study examines gender, race, and the need for social gratification [...]

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