Rating Systems of Believers Vs Skeptics of Video Gaming - Annotated Bibliography Example

Download file to see previous pages Greitemeyer, Tobias. "I Am Right, You Are Wrong: How Biased Assimilation Increases The Perceived Gap Between Believers And Skeptics Of Violent Video Game Effects." Plus ONE 9.4 (2014): 1-7. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Mar. 2015.

Greitemeyer discusses how believers and sceptics react to provided evidence related to video games causing violence and provides an in-depth explanation from a psychological point of view. His purpose from this research is to show that people accept what they like to do either it be playing video games or other activities, even if faced with evidence proving it causes unwanted behaviour. Also, he mentions that people tend to ignore evidence regarding an issue that’s against their belief or opinion. The author makes a clear explanation by not taking a bias opinion or a side to the issue, but just by showing the information gathered and hypothesis he came up with.

Happ, Christian, André Melzer, and Georges Steffen. "Superman vs. BAD Man? The Effects of Empathy and Game Character in Violent Video Games." Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (2013): 774-78. Print.

The authors of this article discuss the effects of video games on the behaviour of the players. A proper and systematic plan was designed in order to test the effects of empathy. The famous and noble comic hero Superman against the villain the Joker was juxtaposed. The groups were made and the proper study was conducted. The video game was played and the studies show that those who read Wikipedia were more aware of the background of the characters. The violence and beating were less justified by them as they knew about the tormented childhood of the Joker while those who were given the articles to read did not know much about them and gave their stance that was opposite to the latter. It was found that those who played Superman have more helping behaviour and less hostile perception than those who played Joker. It was concluded that empathy for a certain character depends largely on the background he comes from.   ...Download file to see next pagesRead More