TY  - GEN
A1  - Busching, Robert
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Charging neutral cues with aggressive meaning through violent video game play
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - When playing violent video games, aggressive actions are performed against the background of an originally neutral environment, and associations are formed between cues related to violence and contextual features. This experiment examined the hypothesis that neutral contextual features of a virtual environment become associated with aggressive meaning and acquire the function of primes for aggressive cognitions. Seventy-six participants were assigned to one of two violent video game conditions that varied in context (ship vs. city environment) or a control condition. Afterwards, they completed a Lexical Decision Task to measure the accessibility of aggressive cognitions in which they were primed either with ship-related or city-related words. As predicted, participants who had played the violent game in the ship environment had shorter reaction times for aggressive words following the ship primes than the city primes, whereas participants in the city condition responded faster to the aggressive words following the city primes compared to the ship primes. No parallel effect was observed for the non-aggressive targets. The findings indicate that the associations between violent and neutral cognitions learned during violent game play facilitate the accessibility of aggressive cognitions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 678 
KW  - media violence
KW  - aggressive cognitions
KW  - associative networks
KW  - learning
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-476181
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 678
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Prot, Sara
A1  - Gentile, Douglas A.
A1  - Anderson, Craig A.
A1  - Suzuki, Kanae
A1  - Swing, Edward
A1  - Lim, Kam Ming
A1  - Horiuchi, Yukiko
A1  - Jelic, Margareta
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Liuqing, Wei
A1  - Liau, Albert K.
A1  - Khoo, Angeline
A1  - Petrescu, Poesis Diana
A1  - Sakamoto, Akira
A1  - Tajima, Sachi
A1  - Toma, Roxana Andreea
A1  - Warburton, Wayne
A1  - Zhang, Xuemin
A1  - Lam, Ben Chun Pan
T1  - Long-term relations among prosocial-media use, empathy, and prosocial behavior
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediated by empathy and was similar across cultures. Study 2 explored longitudinal relations among prosocial-video-game use, violent-video-game use, empathy, and helping in a large sample of Singaporean children and adolescents measured three times across 2 years. Path analyses showed significant longitudinal effects of prosocial- and violent-video-game use on prosocial behavior through empathy. Latent-growth-curve modeling for the 2-year period revealed that change in video-game use significantly affected change in helping, and that this relationship was mediated by change in empathy.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 389 
KW  - mass media
KW  - cross-cultural differences
KW  - social behavior
KW  - prosocial media
KW  - violent media
KW  - prosocial behavior
KW  - empathy
KW  - helping
KW  - general learning model
KW  - prediction
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404136
IS  - 389
ER  -