PMID- 34093339
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210608
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 12
DP  - 2021
TI  - Insensitive Players? A Relationship Between Violent Video Game Exposure and 
      Recognition of Negative Emotions.
PG  - 651759
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.651759 [doi]
LID - 651759
AB  - An ability to accurately recognize negative emotions in others can initiate 
      pro-social behavior and prevent anti-social actions. Thus, it remains of an 
      interest of scholars studying effects of violent video games. While exposure to 
      such games was linked to slower emotion recognition, the evidence regarding 
      accuracy of emotion recognition among players of violent games is weak and 
      inconsistent. The present research investigated the relationship between violent 
      video game exposure (VVGE) and accuracy of negative emotion recognition. We 
      assessed the level of self-reported VVGE in hours per day and the accuracy of the 
      recognition using the Facial Expressions Matching Test. The results, with 
      adolescents (Study 1; N = 67) and with adults (Study 2; N = 151), showed that 
      VVGE was negatively related to accurate recognition of negative emotion 
      expressions, even if controlled for age, gender, and trait empathy, but no causal 
      direction could be assessed. In line with the violent media desensitization 
      model, our findings suggest that higher self-reported VVGE relates to lower 
      recognition of negative emotional expressions of other people. On the one hand, 
      such lower recognition of negative emotions may underlie inaccurate reactions in 
      real-life social situations. On the other hand, lower sensitivity to social cues 
      may help players to better focus on their performance in a violent game.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Miedzobrodzka, Buczny, Konijn and Krabbendam.
FAU - Miedzobrodzka, Ewa
AU  - Miedzobrodzka E
AD  - Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije 
      Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
FAU - Buczny, Jacek
AU  - Buczny J
AD  - Sopot Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 
      Sopot, Poland.
AD  - Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and 
      Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
FAU - Konijn, Elly A
AU  - Konijn EA
AD  - Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije 
      Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
FAU - Krabbendam, Lydia C
AU  - Krabbendam LC
AD  - Department of Clinical Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and 
      Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210521
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC8175673
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - adolescents
OT  - adults
OT  - emotion recognition
OT  - empathy
OT  - media violence
OT  - video games
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/06/08 06:00
MHDA- 2021/06/08 06:01
PMCR- 2021/05/21
CRDT- 2021/06/07 05:49
PHST- 2021/01/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/04/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/06/07 05:49 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/06/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/06/08 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/05/21 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.651759 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2021 May 21;12:651759. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.651759. eCollection 
      2021.