Citation

Williams KD. Mass Commun. Soc. 2011; 14(1): 3-24.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15205430903359701

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

After an experiment with 148 male participants, results indicated that skinning a video game character to physically resemble the player led to greater identification and psychological involvement with the game's character but did little to impact the feeling of presence. Exposure to violent content also led to greater physical hostility than exposure to nonviolent content. An interaction effect revealed playing a violent game with a character physically resembling the player led to even greater hostility.

Language: en