Citation

Markey PM, Ivory JD, Slotter EB, Oliver MB, Maglalang O. Psychol. Pop. Media 2020; 9(4): 493-498.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, American Psychiatric Publishing)

DOI

10.1037/ppm0000255

PMID

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Abstract

Despite a lack of research linking school shootings to video games, video games are frequently associated with school shootings carried out by White perpetrators. Because there is a stereotypical association between racial minorities and violent crime, it is possible that people often look toward video games as a cause for school shootings committed by White perpetrators who do not fit this stereotype. Consistent with this notion, Study 1 (n = 169) found that participants who read a mock news story about a school shooting were more likely to blame video games when the shooter was White than when the shooter was Black. Study 2 examined 204,796 news stories of 204 mass shootings committed in the United States and found that, when a shooting occurred at a school, video games were 8.35 times more likely to be discussed when the shooter was White than when the shooter was Black. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Language: en