Moral positioning in video games and its relation with dispositional traits: The emergence of a social dimension

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Highlights:

• To study video gamers’ in-game morality, personality traits and social tendencies.

• Evilness in video games correlated with low empathy, high physical aggression.

• Evilness in video games correlated with low extraversion, low agreeableness.

• Evilness in video games predicts low empathy, but not high aggression.

摘要

•To study video gamers’ in-game morality, personality traits and social tendencies.•Evilness in video games correlated with low empathy, high physical aggression.•Evilness in video games correlated with low extraversion, low agreeableness.•Evilness in video games predicts low empathy, but not high aggression.

论文关键词:Morality,Video game,Aggression,Empathy,Extraversion,Agreeableness

论文评审过程:Available online 9 April 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.069