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		<title>Abstract realism in video games and aggression (Barlett &amp; Rodeheffer, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve read a post the other day about some observations on the importance of realism between North American and Japanese video game market. (I got another one) It’s one of the different priorities video game developers have. I could guess this could extend to the old media industry as well, of the few foreign television [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=712&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video game design through perceptual, cognitive and learning development (Harmon, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/blog-overview-of-cognitive-developmenta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I have completed my TOEFL because some grad schools aren&#8217;t giving exemptions about my being educated in an Canadian university (Read: English!). I had an easier time writing the essay section than the GRE essay section. I reason the GRE essay questions are more formulaic than the TOEFL. I was so transfixed on following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=704&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The virtual census: profanity in video games (Ivory et al., 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, Dmitri Williams sent word on the internet about his collaborative content analysis work on video game characters. His words were about the gender and racial representations of video game characters and how white and adult male characters are the majority in video games whereas female and minority group characters were under represented. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=699&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The virtual census: the female body in video games (Martins et al., 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, Dmitri Williams sent word on the internet about his collaborative content analysis work on video game characters. His words were about the gender and racial representations of video game characters and how white and adult male characters are the majority in video games whereas female and minority group characters were under represented. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=690&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video game character identification, cultural stereotyping and hostility (Eastin et al., 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation and Emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a related study was posted on ScienceDaily, it reminded of a long forgotten post and was misplaced in my files. The two studies are related in that it dealt with stereotype priming within computer-mediated environments. Matthew Eastin (University of Texas at Austin) had published a study on the effects of playing as black avatars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=578&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journalistic misinterpretation: The case of Melamed&#8217;s study (Lavigne, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/journalistic-misinterpretation-the-case-of-melameds-study-lavigne-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Lavigne has written again another Escapist article on the follies of journalistic misinterpretation of academic research. This time, he presented a case on how an article from Pediatrics has been distorted and why it matters. His article is supporting evidence in one of his earlier article. Please read his article before continuing.
This particular portion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=682&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of immersion in nature on intrinsic aspirations and generosity (Weinstein et al., 2009)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/immersion-in-nature-on-aspirations-and-generosity/</link>
		<comments>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/immersion-in-nature-on-aspirations-and-generosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation and Emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a non-video game study, but its implications could be significant to video games or media in general. For an unknown reason, this article showed up in my database alert, normally I would ignore it if it wasn’t for Andrew Przybylski as co-author. See university press release.
Abstract
Four studies examined the effects of nature on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=674&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violent video games as analyzed by general semantics (Griggers, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/violent-video-games-as-analyzed-by-general-semantics-griggers-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abnormal psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Camilla Griggers (California State University, Channel Islands) has published a weird paper about the use of general semantics, which is itself weird, in evaluating violent video games and how it lead Seung-Hui Cho to commit the Virginia Tech Massacre. I can&#8217;t get a hold of her paper, but just reading the abstract is enough to raise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=669&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time spent playing video games affects our personal income (MacLeod, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/playing-video-games-and-income/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation and Emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a freakonomics-type post. I stumbled upon a news article of an economics student&#8217;s research who found that for every minute of playing video games corresponded to a 0.4% decrease in personal income.
The nature of his data is from Statistics Canada&#8217;s general social survey. So we can&#8217;t make a lot of inferences or get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=661&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mature-rated video games and its association with problem behaviours among young teenagers (Olson et al., 2009)</title>
		<link>http://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/mature-rated-games-and-teenagers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wai Yen Tang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developmental Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder what kind of impact my blog has and to whom it affects&#8230;
Cheryl Olson and Lawrence Kutner (with colleagues) have published a study based on data that created their book “Grand Theft Childhood” and propelled their fame with the video game community. I became aware of this study through gamepolitics, the study didn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vgresearcher.wordpress.com&blog=994159&post=650&subd=vgresearcher&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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