Prosocial video games reduce aggressive cognitions

Übernahme per Copy & Paste
Bibtex-Export
Endnote-Export

[Zeitschriftenartikel]

Greitemeyer, Tobias; Osswald, Silvia

(213 KByte)

Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgenden Persistent Identifier (PID):http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-292036

Abstract	Previous research has shown that playing violent video games increased aggressive tendencies. However, as pointed out by the General Learning Model (GLM) (Buckley & Anderson, 2006), depending on their content, video games do not inevitably increase but may also decrease aggressive responses. Accordingly, the present research tested the hypothesis that playing prosocial video games decreases aggressive cognitions. In fact, playing a prosocial (relative to a neutral) video game reduced the hostile expectation bias (Experiment 1) and decreased the accessibility of antisocial thoughts (Experiment 2). Thus, these results lend credence to GLMs assumption that the effects of video game exposure depend to a great extent on the content of the game played.
Thesaurusschlagwörter	aggression
Klassifikation	Sozialpsychologie; angewandte Psychologie
Freie Schlagwörter	video games; media effects
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2009
Seitenangabe	S. 896-900
Zeitschriftentitel	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45 (2009) 4
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.005
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)