Online video game addiction was one of the buzzwords that attracted me to the field of psychological video game research. Now I’ve expanded my interest to anything video games, but had lost some interest in addiction. Speaking of addiction, I’ve spent some considerable time at 4chan, which I am beginning to appreciate the anime humour [...]
Archive for the ‘Personality Psychology’ Category
Examining problematic usage among guild players in MMOs (Peters & Malesky, 2008)
Posted in Addiction, Personality Psychology, Video games on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Examining the relationship between the Wiimote and violent video games (Markey & Scherer, 2009)
Posted in Aggression, Personality Psychology on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I got this article a few weeks back and since it’s in press I planned to write a post somewhere in December. I was planning on posting it when it’s published and when someone in the news media like gamepolitics.com picks it up too. I planned to make this post as sort of complementary [...]
Aggressive players have aggressive personality (Peng et al., 2008)
Posted in Aggression, Personality Psychology, Video games on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Affective response to video games: effects of personality, gender and in-game reinforcement (Chumbley & Griffiths, 2006)
Posted in Addiction, Aggression, Cognitive Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Personality Psychology on February 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am getting the impression that American and European psychologists have differing views on video game effects.
Abstract
Previous research on computer games has tended to concentrate on their more negative effects (e.g., addiction, increased aggression). This study departs from the traditional clinical and social learning explanations for these behavioral phenomena and examines the effect of personality, [...]
Anger personality trait a factor in VG influence on aggressive behaviour (Giumetti & Markey, 2007)
Posted in Aggression, Personality Psychology on May 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think my first blog entry wasn’t that great, maybe I should continue and improve.
Now continuing on to another study that’s published in the Journal of Personality Research by Giumetti & Markey.
In this study, Giumetti and Markey looked into the relationship between personality trait of anger and aggressive thoughts after playing video games, again they [...]
Temperament effect in video games (Devilly et al., 2007)
Posted in Aggression, Personality Psychology on April 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Devilly, G. J., Unsworth, G. , Ward, T. (in press) The effect of playing violent videogames on adolescents: Should parents be quaking in their boots? Psychology, Crime & Law.
This article came when gamepolitics.com found it in an australian news website. So I went and asked for a copy of the article from one of the [...]
