Acting like a Tough Guy: Violent-Sexist Video Games, Identification with Game Characters, Masculine Beliefs, & Empathy for Female Violence Victims

Alessandro Gabbiadini; Paolo Riva; Luca Andrighetto; Chiara Volpato; Brad J. Bushman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152121

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Acting like a Tough Guy: Violent-Sexist Video Games, Identification with Game Characters, Masculine Beliefs, & Empathy for Female Violence Victims

Alessandro Gabbiadini ,

* E-mail: ale.gabbiadini@gmail.com

Affiliation University of Milano Bicocca, Department of Psychology, Milan, Italy
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Paolo Riva,

Affiliation University of Milano Bicocca, Department of Psychology, Milan, Italy
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Luca Andrighetto,

Affiliation University of Genova, Department of Education, Genova, Italy
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Chiara Volpato,

Affiliation University of Milano Bicocca, Department of Psychology, Milan, Italy
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Brad J. Bushman

Affiliations The Ohio State University, School of Communication, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Acting like a Tough Guy: Violent-Sexist Video Games, Identification with Game Characters, Masculine Beliefs, & Empathy for Female Violence Victims

Alessandro Gabbiadini,
Paolo Riva,
Luca Andrighetto,
Chiara Volpato,
Brad J. Bushman

Published: April 13, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152121

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Revised dataset published online

Posted by agabbiadini on 05 Apr 2017 at 15:06 GMT

to give to a broader number of researchers the opportunity to reanalyze our original dataset (available on the open science framework public database: https://osf.io/f62sa/) we have now published a revised version of the original database with more clear item labels.

No competing interests declared.

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