Video Game Violence

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that a positive correlation between violent video game play and aggression has been identified by many individual studies. The paper presents a study to research whether violence and sexual objectification of women in video games increases aggression toward women in college aged men. The paper notes the ethical issues that will exist in the proposed study.

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Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Ethical Issues

From the Paper:

"Four groups of young adult men will be selected. Each group will be tested in advance with adjective matching and oral testing from female researchers to identify their attitudes and reactions toward women. The first two groups will play one to two hours of violent and sexually offensive video game play for five days. The third group will include individuals who have limited previous video game exposure and will not play video games during the experiment. Groups one and three will be orally tested by a female researcher following the week of video game play. Groups two and four will be tested by a male researcher. Results will be compared to identify differences between reactions in video game users and non-users."

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