Citation

Bailey K, West R, Anderson CA. Cogn. Affect. Behav. Neurosci. 2011; 11(2): 259-276.

Affiliation

Center for the Study of Violence, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, W112 Lagomarcino Hall, Ames, IA, 50011, USA, kmbailey@iastate.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.3758/s13415-011-0029-y

PMID

21461985

Abstract

Exposure to video game violence (VGV) is known to result in desensitization to violent material and may alter the processing of positive emotion related to facial expressions. The present study was designed to address three questions: (1) Does the association between VGV and positive emotion extend to stimuli other than faces, (2) is the association between VGV and affective picture processing observed with a single presentation of the stimuli, and (3) is the association between VGV and the response to violent stimuli sensitive to the relevance of emotion for task performance? The data revealed that transient modulations of the event-related potentials (ERPs) related to attentional orienting and sustained modulations of the ERPs related to evaluative processing were sensitive to VGV exposure.

Language: en