The effect of online violent video games on levels of aggression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Hollingdale, Jack ^a   Greitemeyer, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAME; GENERAL AGGRESSION MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; ONLINE VIOLENT VIDEO GAME; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIOLENCE; ADOLESCENT; INTERNET; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911498619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111790     Document Type: Article

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