菜鸟易暴走
玩个电子游戏也可能让人暴走，但起决定性作用的似乎并非游戏本身的暴力元素，而是玩游戏时产生的挫败感：无法提高《侠盗飞车3》（Grand Theft Auto 3）中的杀人数量，《羊了个羊》老是过不了这一关，诸如此类的焦灼场景很容易让你火冒三丈。
发表在《人格与社会心理学》（Journal of Personality and Social Psychology）上的一项研究得出了如上结论。
研究人员对600名玩家进行了测试，分配给他们的定制游戏包括暴力版与非暴力版。他们发现，有设计缺陷或者极度困难的游戏会让玩家气急败坏，愤怒程度…
Being Bad at Video Games Ups Aggression
Video game playing can make you angry or aggressive. But it seems that the key factor may not be the violence. It’s the player’s incompetence at the game that’s behind the ramped-up emotions, whether they’re upping their kill count in Grand Theft Auto 3 or simply trying to solve a puzzle in Tetris.
That’s the take-away from a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Researchers tested violent and nonviolent variations of a custom-designed game on 600 players. They found that poorly designed or overly difficult games left participants as enraged, if not more so...
“论文信息
Przybylski, A. K., Deci, E. L., Rigby, C. S., & Ryan, R. M. (2014). Competence-impeding electronic games and players’ aggressive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(3), 441–457. doi: 10.1037/a0034820
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