Failure to Demonstrate That Playing Violent Video Games Diminishes Prosocial Behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tear, Morgan J ^a   Nielsen, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; RECREATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIOLENCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879753990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068382     Document Type: Article

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