Violence in teen-rated video games

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Haninger, Kevin ^a   Ryan, M Seamus ^a   Thompson, Kimberly M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; EXPOSURE; FATALITY; GAME; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INJURY; LANGUAGE; MARKETING; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; REWARD; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING; VIOLENCE; WEAPON;

EID: 25144488276     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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