Tobias Greitemeyer

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Affiliation: University of Innsbruck
Country: Austria

Publications

  1. ncbi Playing prosocial video games increases empathy and decreases schadenfreude
    Tobias Greitemeyer
    Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    Emotion 10:796-802. 2010
  2. ncbi Denying humanness to others: a newly discovered mechanism by which violent video games increase aggressive behavior
    Tobias Greitemeyer
    Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Maximilianstr 2, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    Psychol Sci 22:659-65. 2011
  3. ncbi Playing prosocial video games increases the accessibility of prosocial thoughts
    Tobias Greitemeyer
    University of Innsbruck, Psychology Department, Maximilianstr 2, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    J Soc Psychol 151:121-8. 2011
  4. ncbi The effects of risk-glorifying media exposure on risk-positive cognitions, emotions, and behaviors: a meta-analytic review
    Peter Fischer
    Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
    Psychol Bull 137:367-90. 2011

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Publications4

  1. ncbi Playing prosocial video games increases empathy and decreases schadenfreude
    Tobias Greitemeyer
    Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    Emotion 10:796-802. 2010
    ..e., schadenfreude). These results lend further credence to the predictive validity of the General Learning Model (Buckley & Anderson, 2006) for the effects of media exposure on social tendencies...
  2. ncbi Denying humanness to others: a newly discovered mechanism by which violent video games increase aggressive behavior
    Tobias Greitemeyer
    Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Maximilianstr 2, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    Psychol Sci 22:659-65. 2011
    ..Thus, it appears that video-game-induced aggressive behavior is triggered when victimizers perceive the victim to be less human...
  3. ncbi Playing prosocial video games increases the accessibility of prosocial thoughts
    Tobias Greitemeyer
    University of Innsbruck, Psychology Department, Maximilianstr 2, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    J Soc Psychol 151:121-8. 2011
    ..Thus, depending on the content of the video game, playing video games can harm but may also benefit social relations...
  4. ncbi The effects of risk-glorifying media exposure on risk-positive cognitions, emotions, and behaviors: a meta-analytic review
    Peter Fischer
    Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
    Psychol Bull 137:367-90. 2011
    ..The theoretical, practical, and societal implications of the present research synthesis are discussed...