Just a game after all: Violent video game exposure and time spent playing effects on hostile feelings, depression, and visuospatial cognition

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 608-616

  Valadez, Jose J ^a   Ferguson, Christopher J ^a  

^a Department of Psychology and Communication ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Depression; Hostile feelings; Video games; Visuospatial cognition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; DEPRESSION; HOSTILE FEELINGS; VIDEO GAME; VISUOSPATIAL COGNITION;

COMPETITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RESEARCH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84855522078     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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