The good, the bad and the ugly: a meta-analytic review of positive and negative effects of violent video gamesChristopher John Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
Psychiatr Q 78:309-16. 2007
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Violent video games and the supreme court: lessons for the scientific community in the wake of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants AssociationChristopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
Am Psychol 68:57-74. 2013
..The current article reviews the involvement of the psychological science community in the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association case and suggests that it might learn from some of the errors in this case for the future...
- Spanking, corporal punishment and negative long-term outcomes: a meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 33:196-208. 2013
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- Not worth the fuss after all? cross-sectional and prospective data on violent video game influences on aggression, visuospatial cognition and mathematics ability in a sample of youth
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A and M International University, 5201 University Blvd, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
J Youth Adolesc 42:109-22. 2013
..Analysis of effect sizes largely ruled out Type II error as a possible explanation for null results. Suggestions for new directions in the field of video game research are proffered...
- The influence of heritability, neuroticism, maternal warmth and media use on disordered eating behaviors: a prospective analysis of twins
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A and M International University, 5201 University Blvd, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
Psychiatr Q 83:353-60. 2012
..This suggests that it is important to control for genetic variables when analyzing risk factors for DEB...
- Publication bias in psychological science: prevalence, methods for identifying and controlling, and implications for the use of meta-analyses
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M International University, 5201 University Blvd, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
Psychol Methods 17:120-8. 2012
..Sources of publication bias and implications for the use of meta-analysis are discussed...
- Advertising influences on young children's food choices and parental influence
Christopher J Ferguson
Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
J Pediatr 160:452-5. 2012
..To evaluate whether advertising for food influences choices made by children, the strength of these influences, and whether they might be easily undone by parental influences...
- A meta-analysis of pathological gaming prevalence and comorbidity with mental health, academic and social problems
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
J Psychiatr Res 45:1573-8. 2011
..The current meta-analysis considers existing scholarship to examine how differing measurement methods influence prevalence rates and associations with other mental health problems...
- A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: a 3-year longitudinal study of adolescents
Christopher J Ferguson
Texas A and M International University, Behavioral Sciences, 5201 University Blvd, Laredo, TX 78041, United States
J Psychiatr Res 46:141-6. 2012
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- Video games and youth violence: a prospective analysis in adolescents
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX, 78045, USA
J Youth Adolesc 40:377-91. 2011
..These results are put into the context of criminological data on serious acts of violence among youth...
- Sexting behaviors among young Hispanic women: incidence and association with other high-risk sexual behaviors
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Texas A and M International University, 5201 University Blvd, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
Psychiatr Q 82:239-43. 2011
..Sexting behaviors were not associated with most other high-risk sexual behaviors, but were slightly more common in women who found sex to be highly pleasurable or who displayed histrionic personality traits...
- The influence of television and video game use on attention and school problems: a multivariate analysis with other risk factors controlled
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
J Psychiatr Res 45:808-13. 2011
..The current study examines the multivariate nature of risk factors for attention problems symptomatic of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and poor school performance...
- With friends like these…: peer delinquency influences across age cohorts on smoking, alcohol and illegal substance use
C J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
Eur Psychiatry 26:6-12. 2011
..The current study focuses on the influence of delinquent peers on substance use, and how peer delinquency influences change across age cohorts of youth...
- Saturday night's alright for fighting: antisocial traits, fighting, and weapons carrying in a large sample of youth
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
Psychiatr Q 81:293-302. 2010
..Strategies for intervention and prevention of youth violence that focus on peers, neighborhoods, depression, and families may be particularly likely to bear fruit...
- Social isolation, impulsivity and depression as predictors of aggression in a psychiatric inpatient population
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190, USA
Psychiatr Q 76:123-37. 2005
..Further, physicians' ratings of hostility were more predictive of aggressive incidents than were self-reports of hostility. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed...
- An analysis of females convicted of sex crime in the state of Florida
Christopher J Ferguson
Clinical Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 33816, USA
J Child Sex Abus 14:75-89. 2005
..These results suggest that female sexual offenders are a heterogeneous population and a more in-depth investigation may be necessary...
- The utility of somatic symptoms as indicators of depression and anxiety in military veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences, and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, Texas, USA
Depress Anxiety 23:42-9. 2006
..Furthermore, in this model, somatic symptoms are retained as valid indicators of psychological distress for this sample...
- Judgments of culpability in a filicide scenario
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
Int J Law Psychiatry 31:41-50. 2008
..Participants were asked to rate the culpability of the defendant in the case. Results indicated that, unlike for other violent crimes, participants did not use gender or social class biases in their judgments of criminal culpability...
- The public health risks of media violence: a meta-analytic review
Christopher J Ferguson
Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
J Pediatr 154:759-63. 2009
..To conduct a meta-analytic review of studies that examine the impact of violent media on aggressive behavior and to determine whether this effect could be explained through methodological problems inherent in this research field...
- A multivariate analysis of youth violence and aggression: the influence of family, peers, depression, and media violence
Christopher J Ferguson
Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
J Pediatr 155:904-908.e3. 2009
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- Much ado about nothing: the misestimation and overinterpretation of violent video game effects in eastern and western nations: comment on Anderson et al. (2010)
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice, Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78045, USA
Psychol Bull 136:174-8; discussion 182-7. 2010
..15 is still indicative of only weak effects. Contrasts between the claims of C. A. Anderson et al. (2010) and real-world data on youth violence are discussed...
- A meta-analysis of normal and disordered personality across the life span
Christopher J Ferguson
Texas A and M International University, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:659-67. 2010
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- Genetic contributions to antisocial personality and behavior: a meta-analytic review from an evolutionary perspective
Christopher J Ferguson
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Texas A and M International University, 5201 University Boulevard, Laredo, TX 78041, USA
J Soc Psychol 150:160-80. 2010
..This data is discussed in relation to evolutionary psychological theory...
- Media violence: miscast causality
Christopher J Ferguson
University of Central Florida, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 161390, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Am Psychol 57:446-7. 2002
