![]() ![]() Teresa Lynch and Nicole Martins of Indiana University looked at college students’ experiences with horror video games and found that about half of their sample (53 per cent) had tried playing such games and been frightened by them. ![]() What are the effects of horror video games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Resident Evil, how do they work, and why do people play them?Ī new study addresses these questions. While researchers in media psychology have been busy investigating and discussing the effects of violent video games, another peculiar and persistent game genre-horror-has attracted very little empirical research. In 2014, US consumers spent more than $22 billion on game content, hardware, and accessories. The video game industry outpaced the movie industry several years ago, and video games remain a rapidly growing market. Horror video games target evolved defence mechanismsīy confronting the player with fright-inducing stimuli
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