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  title info:
    title: Investigating psychopathic behavior using the Sims 3 video game
  name:
    name part: Visser, Beth A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Batinic, Mirna
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Worth, Narnia
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Book, Angela
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In the article, "Psychopathic Sims: Testing the cheater-hawk hypothesis in a video game," we used "The Sims 3" video game to investigate psychopathic traits. Our participants completed a self-report psychopathy inventory, but also played a Sims 3 video game, interacting with virtual characters we had given different personality traits. Game play was recorded so that we were able to count interactions of various types. Using this methodology, we found that individuals who reported higher levels of psychopathic traits were more apt to use "mean" and aggressive interactions in general, and particularly toward the "dove" character. We concluded that video games are a useful research method, particularly when the interactions of interest (i.e., aggression) are unsuitable for "real-life" behavioral observation.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Beth A. Visser, Mirna Batinic, Narnia Worth and Angela Book.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Sims 3 (Computer game)
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Sims 3 (Computer game)
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, Pathological
  subject:
    topic: Psychopaths
  subject:
    topic: Psychopathology
  subject:
    topic: Psychopathologie
  subject:
    topic: Psychopathes
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, Pathological
  subject:
    topic: Psychopaths
  classification: RC454 .V57 2021
  classification: 616.89
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE research methods cases
  identifier: 9781529759433
  identifier: 1529759439
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 201221
    record change date: 20240923170323.5
    record identifier: in00005494552
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng