Unreal: Hostile expectations from social gameplay

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 509-531

  Eastin, Matthew S ^a   Griffiths, Robert P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Competition; Cooperative; General aggression model; Group; Hostile expectations; Media effects; Verbal aggression; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949104834     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809102958     Document Type: Article

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