The Effects Of Playing Violent Video Games Cooperatively On Cooperation And Aggressive Behavior

The cooperative game context could effectively reduce the negative effects of the content of violence.Most of the researchers explore the effect from cognitive,emotional and physiological arousal.However,with the development of electronics technology and the diversity of video games,Greitemeyer raises that humanization is one important intermediate variable.Consequently,the present study hypothesize that humanization mediate the associations between cooperative game context in violent video games and players' cooperation and aggressive behavior,and explore this positive effect in depth.This could be of great significance to the exploration of the positive factors of the violent game and the effective reduction of its negative effects.The first experiment explore the positive effect of cooperative game context in violent video games with the method of the questionnaire survey.The second and third experiments,respectively,explore the possible mediating role of humanization in the relationshiop between cooperative game context in violent video games and players' cooperation and aggressive behavior from explicit and implicit two levels.Implicit test can effectively reduce the social praise effect,so that help to get a comprehensive understand.The main conclusions are as follows:(1)Compared with the players who enter the violent game in single form,the level of cooperation in the cooperative game context is higher and the aggressiveness is lower.(2)According to the explicit test,whether for the self or the others' humanity,there is not significant mediating role in the relationshiop between cooperative game context in violent video games and players' cooperation and aggressive behavior in the dimension of Human nature.While in the dimension of Human Uniqueness,cooperative game context could improve the perceived humanity of the others,and the mediating role is significant.That is to say,cooperative game context could improve the perceived humanity of the others and then promote cooperation and reduce aggressivity.(3)According to the implicit test,in the dimension of Human nature,cooperative game context could improve the perceived humanity of the others so that reduce aggressivity,but there is not promoting effect for cooperation.While in the dimension of Human Uniqueness,cooperative game context could improve the perceived humanity of the others so that promote cooperation,but cuould't reduce aggressivity.