Effects of Violent Versus Nonviolent Video Games on Children's Arousal, Aggressive Mood, and Positive Mood

By Michele J. Fleming, D. J. Wood. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The effect of playing violent video games on adolescents: Should parents be quaking in their boots? (2007, background): “Furthermore, other researchers have found either no detrimental effects from game playing (Fleming & Rickwood, 2001; Nelson & Carlson, 1985; Winkel, Novak, & Hopson, 1987) or even positive (cathartic) effects (Kestenbaum & Weinstein, 1985).”
• Violent Video Games and Aggression (2008, background): “Several experimental studies have examined the effects of playing violent video games on aggressive cognitions (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Ballad & West, 1996; Bushman & Anderson, 2002) and physiological arousal (Ballad & West, 1996; Bartholow, Bushman, & Sestir, in press; Fleming & Rickwood, 2001).”
• Evidence for publication bias in video game violence effects literature: A meta-analytic review (2007, background): “Other measures of “aggression” applied in laboratory settings include relatively innocuous physiological measures of arousal such as brainwaves (Bartholow, Bushman, and Sestir, 2006) and heart rate ( Fleming & Rickwood, 2001 ), interpreting the actions of a character in a story (Bushman & Anderson, ”
• Children's Exposure to Negative Internet Content: Effects of Family Context (2005, unknown): “…of psychological trauma, antisocial behavior, negative self-perception, low self-esteem, lack of reality, identity confusion, and more (e.g., Donnerstein, Slaby, & Eron, 1994; Fleming & Rickwood, 2001; Funk & Buchman, 1996; Strasburger & Donnerstein, 1999; Wartella, O’Keefe, & Scantlin, 2000).”