So, I have completed my TOEFL because some grad schools aren’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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Video games’ Category
Video game design through perceptual, cognitive and learning development (Harmon, 2009)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Education, Video games on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The virtual census: profanity in video games (Ivory et al., 2009)
Posted in Video games on November 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
The virtual census: the female body in video games (Martins et al., 2009)
Posted in Gender, Video games on November 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
Journalistic misinterpretation: The case of Melamed’s study (Lavigne, 2009)
Posted in Popular media, Video games on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Effects of immersion in nature on intrinsic aspirations and generosity (Weinstein et al., 2009)
Posted in Motivation and Emotion, Video games on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Violent video games as analyzed by general semantics (Griggers, 2009)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Aggression, Video games on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Time spent playing video games affects our personal income (MacLeod, 2009)
Posted in Motivation and Emotion, Video games on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a freakonomics-type post. I stumbled upon a news article of an economics student’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’s general social survey. So we can’t make a lot of inferences or get [...]
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 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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) [...]
