PMID- 37990996
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231207
LR  - 20240116
IS  - 1747-0927 (Electronic)
IS  - 1747-0919 (Print)
IS  - 1747-0919 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 6
DP  - 2023 Dec
TI  - Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in 
      adolescents - an ERP study.
PG  - 365-381
LID - 10.1080/17470919.2023.2284999 [doi]
AB  - This Event-Related Potential (ERP) study aimed to test how habitual and 
      short-term violent video game exposure (VVGE) may affect empathy for pain 
      responses in adolescents. In a within-subjects design, boys (N = 56; aged 
      12-16 years) performed a pain judgment task before and immediately after playing 
      a violent video game. In this task, participants judged whether photos of hands 
      depicted on their screen were in a painful situation or not. While both the P3 
      and the LPP components were not related to habitual violent video game exposure, 
      general exposure to antisocial media content predicted lower P3 amplitudes to 
      painful pictures. Further, 40 min of violent gameplay did not affect the P3 
      responses; however, it temporarily decreased LPP responses to painful pictures, 
      suggesting a modest short-term desensitization effect. However, this latter 
      interpretation is limited by a strong LPP pain effect - a significant amplitude 
      difference between painful and non-painful pictures - that remained present in 
      the post-game condition. Such persistent LPP effect may relate to the notion that 
      adolescents are still learning how to properly regulate their emotional 
      reactions. This study contributes to the limited literature on violent video 
      games' desensitization in adolescents' brains, opening new avenues for media 
      violence research.
FAU - Miedzobrodzka, Ewa
AU  - Miedzobrodzka E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2637-7781
AD  - Department of Communication Science, Media Psychology Program, Faculty of Social 
      Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
AD  - Department of Clinical, Neuro-, and Developmental Psychology and Institute of 
      Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije 
      Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
FAU - van Hooff, Johanna C
AU  - van Hooff JC
AD  - College of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 
      the Netherlands.
FAU - Krabbendam, Lydia
AU  - Krabbendam L
AD  - Department of Clinical, Neuro-, and Developmental Psychology and Institute of 
      Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije 
      Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
FAU - Konijn, Elly A
AU  - Konijn EA
AD  - Department of Communication Science, Media Psychology Program, Faculty of Social 
      Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
LA  - eng
GR  - 406-15-301, 2015/Dutch Research Council (NWO) Research Talent/
GR  - 648082, 2014/European Research Council (ERC) consolidator/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231206
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Neurosci
JT  - Social neuroscience
JID - 101279009
SB  - IM
MH  - Male
MH  - Humans
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Empathy
MH  - Violence/psychology
MH  - Evoked Potentials/physiology
MH  - Aggression/psychology
MH  - Pain
MH  - *Video Games/psychology
PMC - PMC10721224
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - ERP
OT  - Violent video games
OT  - adolescents
OT  - desensitization
OT  - empathy for pain
COIS- No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
EDAT- 2023/11/22 12:44
MHDA- 2023/12/07 12:42
PMCR- 2023/12/06
CRDT- 2023/11/22 06:59
PHST- 2023/12/07 12:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/11/22 12:44 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/11/22 06:59 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/12/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 2284999 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/17470919.2023.2284999 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Neurosci. 2023 Dec;18(6):365-381. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2284999. Epub 
      2023 Dec 6.