This Is Not a Game: Violent Video Games, Sacred Space, and Ritual

This is your brain on violent video games: Neural desensitization to violence predicts increased aggression following violent video game exposure

This is video game play: video games, authority and metacommunication

Gregory Bateson claims that all play acts should be primarily understood as meta-communicative. In other words, playing a game implies being able to transmit and receive the metamessage ‘this is play’, which establishes a psychological frame among the players. I will propose a radical reading of Bateson’s theory in the context of video games; specifically, I will attempt at analysing the charac...

Violent Video Games Increase Aggression and Violence

Distinguished Senators, ladies, and gentlemen. I am Craig Anderson, Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University. I have studied human behavior for over 25 years. My first research publication, in 1979, concerned one potential contributing factor in the outbreak of riots. My first publication on video game violence appeared in 1987. Next month, the ...

Violent Virtual Video Games and Hostile Thoughts

A vioient virtuai-reaiity (VR) video game's short-term impact on telepresence and hostility was studied. Five weeks before a lab experiment, participants completed a questionnaire measuring prior vioient video game use and trait aggression. Participants were randomly assigned to play a VR vioient video game, play a standard vioient video game, observe a vioient video game, or observe a non-vioi...

This is not a game: play in cultural environments

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