Violent video games and social behaviour

II DECLARATION BY AUTHOR IV PUBLICATIONS DURING CANDIDATURE V PUBLICATIONS INCLUDED IN THIS THESIS VI CONTRIBUTIONS BY OTHERS TO THE THESIS VII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VIII KEYWORDS X AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STANDARD RESEARCH CLASSIFICATIONS (ANZSRC) X FIELDS OF RESEARCH (FOR) CLASSIFICATION X TABLE OF CONTENTS XI LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES XIV CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION 1 VIDEO GAMES AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 2 PUBLIC CONCERN AND MEDIA IN THE 20TH CENTURY 3 EPISTEMOLOGY OF MEDIA EFFECTS RESEARCH 4 THE GENERAL AGGRESSION MODEL 6 VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES AND AGGRESSION 7 VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 9 RATIONALE FOR THE PRESENT THESIS 11 OVERVIEW AND PREDICTIONS 11 CHAPTER 2 – FAILURE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES DIMINISHES PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 13 PREFACE 14 ABSTRACT 15 INTRODUCTION 16 EXPERIMENT 1 17 METHOD 18 Participants 18 Video games 18 Procedure and design 19 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 20 EXPERIMENT 2 22 METHOD 23 Participants 23 Video games 23 Procedure and Design 23 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 24 EXPERIMENT 3 26 METHOD 26 Participants 26 Video games 26 Procedure and design 26