Violent Video Games Induce an Affect Processing Bias.
A study was conducted to examine the effects of violent video game play and trait hostility on attentional bias toward negatively valenced words. Data were gathered by using the Genov Modified Stroop Task to test participants for cognitive interference in categories of words following video game pl...
| Published in: | Media Psychology Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 239 - 251 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005
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