Macbeth and the Joystick: Evidence for moral cleansing after playing a violent video game
Abstract: The “Macbeth effect” denotes the phenomenon that people wish to cleanse themselves physically when their moral self has been threatened. In this article we argue that such a threat to one''s moral self may also result from playing a violent video game, especially when the game involves vio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 1356 - 1361 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Nov2012
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