Empathy in Video Games and Other Media

Within this body of research, the current thesis demonstrates that a) inducing empathy before playing a violent video game can have both expected and contradictory effects and that b) a scale of media-based empathy facilitates and revises the measurement of empathy in the media context. Consuming...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Happ, Christian
Contributors:	Wagner, Ulrich (Prof. Dr.) (Thesis advisor)
Format:	Doctoral Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2013
Subjects:	Gewalt Empathie Video Games Wirkung Media Psychologie Empathy Spiel Einfühlung Messung Videospiele Medien Violence Psychology
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