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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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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) [...]

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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.
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Possible associations between television viewing and video [...]

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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.
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Flashbacks are the hallmark symptom [...]

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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 [...]

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