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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Aggression’ Category
Violent video games as analyzed by general semantics (Griggers, 2009)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Aggression, Video games on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mature-rated video games and its association with problem behaviours among young teenagers (Olson et al., 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Developmental Psychology, Video games on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I often wonder what kind of impact my blog has and to whom it affects…
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 [...]
Hormonal responses differences when playing against an ingroup or outgroup (Oxford et al., 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuropsychology, Video games on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Via gamepolitics, this study examined FPS players’ hormonal responses towards an in-group versus an out-group in a competitive setting. I can understand the evolution part, but I’m a complete beginner in neurobiology, I can’t understand the entire results section.
Abstract
For 14 teams of three young men, salivary testosterone and cortisol were assessed twice before and twice [...]
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 [...]
Violence over competition in violent video games (Anderson & Carnagey, 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Video games on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the labs I’m volunteering in has computers with two screens. I never got the chance in trying them out, but it would’ve been nice in reviewing studies: the journal article on one screen and my reading notes on the other; or flipping through blog entries, news, and emails.
Craig Anderson and Nicholas Carnagey of [...]
Smack talk in professional wrestling (Tamborini et al., 2008)
Posted in Aggression, Media Psychology, Popular media on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post is a part of series of study reviews written by professors whom I have an interest in joining as their grad student.
Ronald Tamborini and many other professors in the Communications department of Michigan State University are involved with new media research and many of them towards video games. Looking at the faculty page, [...]
Blood and point of view in violent video games and its effect on reactive aggression (Krcmar & Farrar, 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Video games on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post is a part of series of study reviews written by professors whom I have an interest in joining as their grad student.
Marina Krcmar, Kirstie Farrar and Kristine Nowak are being considered to be good advisors when I’m applying for grad school for this fall. Their names have shown up a lot in my [...]
Meta-analysis of media violence as a public health risk (Ferguson & Kilburn, 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Video games on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Via gamepolitics, Christopher Ferguson and John Kilburn has a publication coming up at the Journal of Pediatrics. Since Dr. Ferguson contacted gamepolitics and basically wrote the essential stuff. I opted just to dump this post and go on doing something else. I’m currently doing a lot of stuff and if anyone saw a poster about [...]
Empathic numbing from violent media (Bushman & Anderson, 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Popular media, Video games on February 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Via gamepolitics, Brad Bushman and Craig Anderson had conducted two sets of studies that showed how violent media numb individuals from helping others. Here’s the university press release and be sure to listen to the podcast. A little aside, I would like to give my finger to Wiley-Blackwell for poor customer service, again. Why make [...]
