ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Long-Time Exposure to Violent Video Games Does Not Show Desensitization on Empathy for Pain: An fMRI Study.
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- Systematic Review of Gaming and Neuropsychological Assessment of Social Cognition.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on pain empathy: investigating the role of visual information and observers' perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- [Neuropsychological effects of playing violent video games].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2026Review
- Habitual violent media exposure does not bias facial emotional processing: a comparison of interactive vs. non-interactive content.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of acute violent videogame exposure on neurocognitive markers of empathic concern.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Online Assessment of Social Cognition in a Population of Gamers and Gamblers: Results of the eSMILE Study.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
- Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents - an ERP study.Social neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Probing the role of the right inferior frontal gyrus during Pain-Related empathy processing: Evidence from fMRI and TMS.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Violence in video game produces a lower activation of limbic and temporal areas in response to social inclusion images.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Competitive Intensity Modulates the Pain Empathy Response: An Event-Related Potentials Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Spontaneous Brain Activity Did Not Show the Effect of Violent Video Games on Aggression: A Resting-State fMRI Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- The Influence of Empathy and Morality of Violent Video Game Characters on Gamers' Aggression.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
As a typical form of empathy, empathy for pain refers to the perception and appraisal of others' pain, as well as the corresponding affective responses. Numerous studies investigated the factors affecting the empathy for pain, in which the exposure to violent video games (VVGs) could change players' empathic responses to painful situations. However, it remains unclear whether exposure to VVG influences the empathy for pain. In the present study, in terms of the exposure experience to VVG, two groups of participants (18 in VVG group, VG; 17 in non-VVG group, NG) were screened from nearly 200 video game experience questionnaires. And then, the functional magnetic resonance imaging data were recorded when they were viewing painful and non-painful stimuli. The results showed that the perception of others' pain were not significantly different in brain regions between groups, from which we could infer that the desensitization effect of VVGs was overrated.
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