Reference : Game over for first-person shooter games? The impact of playing experience on aggression

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Social, industrial & organizational psychology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/7666

Title :	Game over for first-person shooter games? The impact of playing experience on aggression
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Glock, Sabine [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Languages, Culture, Media and Identities (LCMI) >]
	Kneer, Julia [> >]
Publication date :	2009
Journal title :	Journal of Media Psychology
Publisher :	Hogrefe
Volume :	21
Issue/season :	1
Pages :	151-160
Peer reviewed :	Yes (verified by ORBilu)
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1864-1105
e-ISSN :	2151-2388
Keywords :	[en] aggression ; violent digital games ; associative networks
Abstract :	[en] Because of recent school shootings, there has been a broad public discussion on whether playing violent digital games causes aggression. Current empirical findings of media violence research on aggression are ambiguous. It is also unclear whether the positive correlation is due to active playing or to media reports. Media reports may lead people who do not play (nonplayers) to associate violent digital games with aggression, while active players (long-term players) may have differentiated knowledge structures. Therefore, we conducted an experiment to investigate the relationship between the concepts “violent digital game” and “aggression” for long-term players and nonplayers. Long-term players, nonprimed, and primed nonplayers performed two lexical decision tasks before and after playing “Unreal Tournament.” While priming “violent digital game” activated the concept “aggression” for nonplayers, active playing had no impact at all. The individual knowledge about these games had stronger impact on psychological responses than playing a violent digital game.
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/7666
DOI :	10.1027/1864-1105.21.4.151

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