Will the experience of playing a violent role in a video game influence people's judgments of violent crimes?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1019-1023

  Lee, Kwan Min ^a,b   Peng, Wei ^c   Klein, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude towards crime; Computer game; Police crime; Role playing; Video game; Violence

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TOWARDS CRIME; COMPUTER GAME; INTERACTION EFFECT; ROLE PLAYING; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CRIME;

EID: 77955278624     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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