The psychophysiology of James Bond: Phasic emotional responses to violent video game events

@article{FPS game emotion, abstract = {The authors examined emotional valence- and arousal-related phasic psychophysiological responses to different violent events in the first-person shooter video game "James Bond 007: NightFire" among 36 young adults. Event-related changes in zygomaticus major, corrugator supercilii, and orbicularis oculi electromyographic (EMG) activity and skin conductance level (SCL) were recorded, and the participants rated their emotions and the trait psychoticism based on the Psychoticism dimension of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire--Revised, Short Form. Wounding and killing the opponent elicited an increase in SCL and a decrease in zygomatic and orbicularis oculi EMG activity. The decrease in zygomatic and orbicularis oculi activity was less pronounced among high Psychoticism scorers compared with low Psychoticism scorers. The wounding and death of the player's own character (James Bond) elicited an increase in SCL and zygomatic and orbicularis oculi EMG activity and a decrease in corrugator activity. Instead of joy resulting from victory and success, wounding and killing the opponent may elicit high-arousal negative affect (anxiety), with high Psychoticism scorers experiencing less anxiety than low Psychoticism scorers. Although counterintuitive, the wounding and death of the player's own character may increase some aspect of positive emotion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)}, author = {Ravaja, Niklas and Turpeinen, Marko and Saari, Timo and Puttonen, Sampsa and Keltikangas-J\"{a}rvinen, Liisa }, citeulike-article-id = {2431337}, journal = {Emotion}, keywords = {emotion, fps, game}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {114--120}, posted-at = {2008-02-27 13:03:14}, priority = {0}, title = {The psychophysiology of James Bond: Phasic emotional responses to violent video game events}, url = {http://content.apa.org/journals/emo/8/1/114}, volume = {8}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - FPS game emotion L3 - citeulike-article-id:2431337 TI - The psychophysiology of James Bond: Phasic emotional responses to violent video game events JF - Emotion VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 114 EP - 120 N2 - The authors examined emotional valence- and arousal-related phasic psychophysiological responses to different violent events in the first-person shooter video game "James Bond 007: NightFire" among 36 young adults. Event-related changes in zygomaticus major, corrugator supercilii, and orbicularis oculi electromyographic (EMG) activity and skin conductance level (SCL) were recorded, and the participants rated their emotions and the trait psychoticism based on the Psychoticism dimension of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire--Revised, Short Form. Wounding and killing the opponent elicited an increase in SCL and a decrease in zygomatic and orbicularis oculi EMG activity. The decrease in zygomatic and orbicularis oculi activity was less pronounced among high Psychoticism scorers compared with low Psychoticism scorers. The wounding and death of the player's own character (James Bond) elicited an increase in SCL and zygomatic and orbicularis oculi EMG activity and a decrease in corrugator activity. Instead of joy resulting from victory and success, wounding and killing the opponent may elicit high-arousal negative affect (anxiety), with high Psychoticism scorers experiencing less anxiety than low Psychoticism scorers. Although counterintuitive, the wounding and death of the player's own character may increase some aspect of positive emotion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) KW - emotion KW - fps KW - game AU - Ravaja, Niklas AU - Turpeinen, Marko AU - Saari, Timo AU - Puttonen, Sampsa AU - Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa PY - 2008/02// UR - http://content.apa.org/journals/emo/8/1/114 ER -