How to ameliorate negative effects of violent video games on cooperation: Play it cooperatively in a team

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1465-1470

  Greitemeyer, Tobias ^a   Traut Mattausch, Eva ^b   Osswald, Silvia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Media effects; Trust; Video game context; Violent video games

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; COOPERATION; MEDIA EFFECTS; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; TRUST; VIDEO GAME;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84860282097     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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