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Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression
This study investigated whether stress or violent content in video games plays a greater role in aggressiveness towards a cooperative partner while playing a video game. It was hypothesized that participants, when exposed to stress, would demonstrate greater aggressiveness toward an incompetent part...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782425/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43076-022-00141-2 |
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author | Barrington, Genicelle Ferguson, Christopher J. |
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description | This study investigated whether stress or violent content in video games plays a greater role in aggressiveness towards a cooperative partner while playing a video game. It was hypothesized that participants, when exposed to stress, would demonstrate greater aggressiveness toward an incompetent partner than a competent partner. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that participants, when exposed to a violent video game, would demonstrate greater aggression toward an incompetent partner than those exposed to a non-violent video game. Stress was provoked in half of the participants using the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT), while others took a simple math quiz. Participants were then assigned to a video game condition, violent or non-violent with a competent or incompetent confederate and completed a reaction time task to measure aggression. Results indicated that provoked stress and violent content are not linked to aggression in this context. |
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spelling | pubmed-87824252022-01-24 Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression Barrington, Genicelle Ferguson, Christopher J. Trends in Psychol. Original Article This study investigated whether stress or violent content in video games plays a greater role in aggressiveness towards a cooperative partner while playing a video game. It was hypothesized that participants, when exposed to stress, would demonstrate greater aggressiveness toward an incompetent partner than a competent partner. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that participants, when exposed to a violent video game, would demonstrate greater aggression toward an incompetent partner than those exposed to a non-violent video game. Stress was provoked in half of the participants using the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT), while others took a simple math quiz. Participants were then assigned to a video game condition, violent or non-violent with a competent or incompetent confederate and completed a reaction time task to measure aggression. Results indicated that provoked stress and violent content are not linked to aggression in this context. Springer International Publishing 2022-01-21 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8782425/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43076-022-00141-2 Text en © Associação Brasileira de Psicologia 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Barrington, Genicelle Ferguson, Christopher J. Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression |
title | Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression |
title_full | Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression |
title_fullStr | Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression |
title_full_unstemmed | Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression |
title_short | Stress and Violence in Video Games: Their Influence on Aggression |
title_sort | stress and violence in video games: their influence on aggression |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782425/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43076-022-00141-2 |
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