Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life – Anderson & Dill on “Media theory comfort reads”, a list by Cian Kavanagh on TheLysts.
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Year
2000
Type
Journal article
Core idea
Two studies linking violent video game play with short-term aggressive thoughts and behaviours and with self-reported delinquency.
How I use it
In lectures as a worked example of how one strong-looking effects paper can fuel two decades of argument, replications, and re-analyses.
My take
Less a final verdict on games and violence, more the cold open of a very long series about methodology, measurement and moral panic.
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