The Effect of Video Game Competition and Violence on Aggressive Behavior: Which Characteristic Has the Greatest Influence?

By Paul J. C. Adachi, Teena Willoughby. 2011

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Paradigm change in aggression research: The time has come to retire the General Aggression Model (2012, background): “When those other variables are considered, GAM related concepts drop to nonsignificance as predictors of aggression (e.g., Adachi & Willoughby, 2011; Ferguson et al., 2009; Ferguson et al., 2008; Przybylski, Rigby, & Ryan, 2010).”
Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, background): “…video games might encourage people to behave aggressively (C. A. Anderson et al., 2004; C. A. Anderson et al., 2010; Dill & Dill, 1998; but see Adachi & Willoughby, 2011, and Ferguson, San Miguel, Garza, & Jerabeck, 2012, for evidence disputing this claim), and that video-game play might be…”
In the eye of the beholder: Thin-ideal media affects some, but not most, viewers in a meta-analytic review of body dissatisfaction in women and men. (2013, unknown): “For instance, in the field of video game violence, recent research has illuminated that many studies failed to match video game conditions carefully, introducing levels of competitiveness (Adachi & Willoughby, 2011) or complexity of controls (Przybylski, Rigby, & Ryan, 2010) as confounds.”
Do Video Games Promote Positive Youth Development? (2013, background): “For example, we recently found that video game competitiveness, not violence, had the greatest influence on aggressive behavior (Adachi & Willoughby, 2011).”
The Pervasive Problem With Placebos in Psychology (2013, background): “…control condition could overcome the surface plausibility of that association, thereby eliminating expectation effects and demand characteristics (Ferguson & Dyck, 2012; see Adachi & Willoughby, 2011, for an alternative explanation for violent game effects when games are more closely matched)?”