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Examining the relationship between game type, player disposition and aggression

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Future Play '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share

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As technology advances the need for more comprehensive analyses of the relationship between human aggression and gaming increases. First Person Shooter gaming environments provide realistic opportunities for many interactions between players. Violent and aggressive video games have been blamed for many aggressive acts. Early meta-analyses of gaming and aggression concluded that gaming does increase aggression, although at levels lower than that of television and other media. More recent meta-analyses claim that there is no correlation between gaming and aggression. However, previous studies do not consider the possible effect of a live opponent on player aggression and therefore the current study includes this as a putative factor in gaming and aggression. Results indicate that neither the disposition of the opponent (confederate) nor the aggressive level of the game type affected participant aggression.

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DOI:10.1145/1496984

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Balducci FGrana CCucchiara R(2017)Affective level design for a role-playing videogame evaluated by a brain---computer interface and machine learning methodsThe Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics10.1007/s00371-016-1320-233:4(413-427)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2017
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Heintz SLaw ECox ACairns PBernhaupt RNacke L(2015)The Game Genre MapProceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/2793107.2793123(175-184)Online publication date: 5-Oct-2015
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Kontostathis AEdwards LLeatherman A(2010)Text Mining and CybercrimeText Mining10.1002/9780470689646.ch8(149-164)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2010
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