@unpublished{Krahe2014, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara}, title = {Restoring the spirit of fair play in the debate about violent video games a comment on Elson and Ferguson (2013)}, series = {EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST}, volume = {19}, journal = {EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hogrefe}, address = {Kirkland}, issn = {1016-9040}, doi = {10.1027/1016-9040/a000165}, pages = {56 -- 59}, year = {2014}, abstract = {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existing meta-analytic studies that consider a much wider and more balanced range of studies.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{KraheAbbey2013, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Abbey, Antonia}, title = {Intimate partner violence as a global problem - international and interdisciplinary perspectives}, series = {International journal of conflict and violence}, volume = {7}, journal = {International journal of conflict and violence}, number = {2}, publisher = {Inst. for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Univ. of Bielefeld}, address = {Bielefeld}, issn = {1864-1385}, pages = {198 -- 202}, year = {2013}, abstract = {This editorial introduces the Focus Section on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) as a worldwide problem, which brings together six papers that are truly international and interdisciplinary. They provide insights into IPV from nine different cultures - China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and the United States - from scholars in the fields of psychology, gender studies, political science, and economics. The first three papers look at how widespread the experience of IPV is among different groups of women, examine selected risk factors associated with heightened vulnerability to victimization, and discuss consequences of intimate partner victimization. Another two papers place the problem of IPV in the wider context of societal perceptions and attitudes about victims and perpetrators of IPV in different countries, whereas the last paper examines the role of individual differences in the management of emotions in the escalation or de-escalation of relationship conflict. In combination, the papers highlight the interplay between the macro level of social and cultural norms condoning the use of violence, the micro level of family relations and construction of couple relationships, and the individual level of attitudes and behaviors that precipitate IPV.}, language = {en} }