The Motivating Role of Violence in Video Games

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0146167208327216PMID 19141627
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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