Cyber-dehumanization: Violent video game play diminishes our humanity

By Brock Bastian, Jolanda Jetten, Helena R. M. Radke. 2012

109 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e806c48b26669d56fc2e8edddd5bf867a4a7c39d

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jesse Fox

In Social Psychology

1. S. Loughnan
2. Nick Haslam
3. Jesse Fox
4. Brock Bastian
5. Mina Cikara
6. Adam Waytz
7. Jeroen Vaes
8. Jamil Zaki

Citations in the corpus

• Dehumanization and infrahumanization. (2014, background): “Recently, Bastian et al. (2012c) found evidence that cognitive dissonance partially underlies this dehumanization.”
• Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths (2015, background): “Bastian, Jetten, and Radke (2012) and Greitemeyer (2013) found that playing a video game in which one’s avatar performed violent acts led players to perceive themselves as less human.”