Game Over? The Impact of Knowledge about Violent Digital Games on the Activation of Aggression-Related Concepts

Journal of Media Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 151-160

  Glock, Sabine ^a   Kneer, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

aggression; associative networks; violent digital games

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949091286     PISSN: 18641105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105.21.4.151     Document Type: Article

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