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’t get a hold of her paper, but just reading the abstract is enough to raise [...]
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Violent video games as analyzed by general semantics (Griggers, 2009)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Aggression, Video games on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Short-term effects of playing video games on attention (Tahiroglu et al., in press)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Video games on October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In about a week, I’ll be doing my GRE and I have been delaying some readings to prepare myself, although I don’t feel that I would be ready by the appointed time. Well, here goes +200$ down the drain.
Gamepolitics reported a study from Iowa State University. Kira Bailey (grad student) and Robert West (faculty advisor) [...]
Systematic review of children with emotional and behavioural problems with video games and television (Mitrofan et al., 2009)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Aggression, Video games on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I pulled this article out of the bottom of my studies’ barrel; it was dated on New Year’s Eve. This study, published from the United Kingdom, reviewed articles on the relation between children with behavioural and emotional difficulties and media use, mainly on television viewing and video game playing.
Abstract
Background
Possible associations between television viewing and video [...]
Using Tetris as a potential treatment for PTSD (Holmes et al., 2009)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Video games on January 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Originally picked this article up from BPS Research Digest Blog, then news spread through mainstream and blogging news. So, gamepolitics.com, BBC News, even my own homeplace’s newspaper picked up via Reuters. This study is about the use of Tetris in preventing PTSD, specifically preventing traumatic memories from forming in long-term memory.
Abstract
Background
Flashbacks are the hallmark symptom [...]
Comparison study among children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and video games (Bioulac et al., 2008)
Posted in Abnormal psychology on March 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I decided to post at least one abstract of a journal article per week that relates to video games, no matter how insignificant it might be. Of course, since I’m still an undergrad student, so I won’t have time to make my summary and comments. But anyone with access to the original article can contribute, just leave a comment if [...]
