TY  - INPR
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Restoring the spirit of fair play in the debate about violent video games a comment on Elson and Ferguson (2013)
T2  - EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST
N2  - This commentary argues that, rather than providing an "exhaustive review," Elson and Ferguson (2013) discuss a selective sample of empirical studies on violent video game use which corroborate their claim that there is no systematic evidence for a link between violent video game play and aggression. In evaluating the evidence, the authors portray a biased picture of the current state of knowledge about media violence effects. They fail to distinguish between aggression and violence and between everyday and clinical forms of aggression. Furthermore, they misrepresent key constructs, such as mediation, moderation, and external validity, to discredit methodologies used to assess aggression and media violence use. The paper moves the debate backward rather than forward, falling behind existing meta-analytic studies that consider a much wider and more balanced range of studies.
KW  - media violence
KW  - aggression
KW  - mediation
KW  - socialization effects
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38312
SN  - 1016-9040
SN  - 1878-531X
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 56
EP  - 59
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Kirkland
ER  -