The Thrill Is Gone, but You Might Not Know: Habituation and Generalization of Biophysiological and Self-reported Arousal Responses to Video Games

Grizzard, Matthew; Tamborini, Ron; Sherry, John F.; Weber, René; Prabhu, Sujay; Hahn, Lindsay; Idzik, Patrick

doi:10.1080/03637751.2014.971418

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“…55 The raw EEG data were processed before analysis using standard procedures. 33,54 Experimental procedure…”

Section: Electrophysiological Recording and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is the possibility that the available media in society has resulted in a general habituation to violent content. 54 The elements of a video game that participants experience when playing in a naturalistic setting, not related to the violent content such as competition and failure, it is conceivable that these factors may be related to the expression of aggression. 20,29,31,32 The functional significance of the P300 is yet to be determined 39 and it has been associated with a diverse range of functions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…the functional significance has yet to be determined 39 and it has been associated with a diverse range of functions for example, but not limited 39 to neurobiological vulnerability to disorders within the externalizing spectrum, 45 context closure, 46 neuroinhibition, 47 habituation and novelty reduction, 48 orienting and response potentiation, 40,49 event categorization, 50 decision confidence, 51,52 and mental fatique. 53 It has been reported that repeated exposure to video games reduces players' ability to elicit arousal, 54 and one possible mechanism for this is habituation and generalization (full review 54 ). It has been hypothesized that the measurement of ERPs at the Parietal midline sagittal plane of the skull could predict increased aggression.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis

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Turner

Pearson

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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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It has been proposed that exposure to violent video games (VVGs) resulted in alterations of social behaviors such as increased aggression. The most damaging reported effect of playing VVGs is neural desensitization to violent stimuli and this is a major concern given the reported number of players and time spent playing major video game titles. The aim of this study was to investigate the existence of neural desensitization that was reported at the P300 component of event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to violent stimuli. Eighty-seven participants were recruited and placed into one of two conditions based on their video gaming behavior (violent games players and nonplayers). ERPs were recorded from participants who passively viewed violent and neutral images selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). The participants then played a VVG, postplaying ERPs were recorded while viewing the neutral and violent IAPS images. The mean amplitudes of the P300 were analyzed with respect to condition, time, and content. There was a significant effect of image but not of VVG player and nonplayer. The results were interpreted as evidence against the neural desensitization hypothesis. The findings of this study are consistent with imaging research and the implications for the reported negative effects of playing VVGs are discussed.

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“…55 The raw EEG data were processed before analysis using standard procedures. 33,54 Experimental procedure…”

Section: Electrophysiological Recording and Analysismentioning

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Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis

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“…In contrast, Bradley, Cuthbert, and Lang (1996) and Codispoti, Ferrari, and Bradley (2006) establish that people’s emotions habituate during exposure to a series of unpleasant images. Prolonged exposure to violent video games appears to produce similar effects (Grizzard et al 2015).…”

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Comfortably Numb: Effects of Prolonged Media Coverage

Hoffman

Kaire

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Exposure to a single report about terrorism in the mass media can trigger a range of emotional and political reactions. The consequences of exposure to several terrorism reports in row, however, are a matter of controversy. We examine the effects of prolonged terrorism coverage using an experimental design that combines self-report measures of emotions and political attitudes with instantaneous biometric data on emotions. Consistent with research on nonassociational learning, we find that exposure to multiple videos habituates people to depictions of terrorism: the longer people watch terrorism coverage, the less intense their reactions are to the images of terrorism they see. Some images and videos, however, contribute to this result more than others. This suggests that the ultimate effects of terrorism coverage depend on the interplay between the quantity and quality of reporting, not the quantity alone.

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“…We predict that this habituation will occur both when viewing repeated warnings within a single computing session and when viewing repeated warnings in computing sessions over consecutive days [30]. When viewing repeated warnings within a single computing session, the brain creates a robust mental model of the security message, resulting in habituation during that session.…”

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What Do We Really Know about How Habituation to Warnings Occurs Over Time?

Vance

Kirwan

Bjornn

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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A major inhibitor of the effectiveness of security warnings is habituation: decreased response to a repeated warning. Although habituation develops over time, previous studies have examined habituation and possible solutions to its effects only within a single experimental session, providing an incomplete view of the problem. To address this gap, we conducted a longitudinal experiment that examines how habituation develops over the course of a five-day workweek and how polymorphic warnings decrease habituation. We measured habituation using two complementary methods simultaneously: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and eye tracking. Our results show a dramatic drop in attention throughout the workweek despite partial recovery between workdays. We also found that the polymorphic warning design was substantially more resistant to habituation compared to conventional warnings, and it sustained this advantage throughout the five-day experiment. Our findings add credibility to prior studies by showing that the pattern of habituation holds across a workweek, and indicate that cross-sectional habituation studies are valid proxies for longitudinal studies. Our findings also show that eye tracking is a valid measure of the mental process of habituation to warnings.

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The Thrill Is Gone, but You Might Not Know: Habituation and Generalization of Biophysiological and Self-reported Arousal Responses to Video Games

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis

Violent Video Games and the P300: No Evidence to Support the Neural Desensitization Hypothesis

Comfortably Numb: Effects of Prolonged Media Coverage

What Do We Really Know about How Habituation to Warnings Occurs Over Time?

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