Media Psychology Review Journal for Media Psychology
Prosocial Video Game Effects
Darcia Narvaez, PhD Bradley Mattan Carl MacMichael Mary Squillace University of Notre Dame ABSTRACT: Violent video games are known to significantly increase aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior (Anderson, Gentile & Buckley, 2007). The effects of a prosocial video game were examined here. here were three video game conditions: violent (killing bandits), helping (saving people from dying by administering medicine), or neutral (collecting bags of gold), and two control conditions (game expectant but no game played, and no game). In the game playing conditions, participants played ten minutes of a video game built with tools from Neverwinter Nights and tried to ...
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