Much ado about something

Violent video game effects and a school of red herring: Reply to Ferguson and Kilburn (2010)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7983503
AutoresBrad J Bushman (0000-0002-1266-5101, University of Michigan), Hannah R Rothstein (0000-0002-2808-4790, City University of New York), C Arnold Anderson (0000-0001-6353-0023, Iowa State University)
Año2010
Volumen136
Número2
Páginas182-187
Fecha de publicación2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPsychological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-2909 • E-ISSN: 1939-1455
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0018718
OpenAlexW2100193398
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas25

In this article we reply to C. J. Ferguson and J. Kilburn’s (2010) critique of our meta-analysis on violent video game effects (C. A. Anderson et al., 2010). We rely on well-established methodological and statistical theory and on empirical data to show that claims of bias and misinterpretation on our part are simply wrong. One should not systematically exclude unpublished studies from meta-analytic reviews. There is no evidence of publication or selection bias in our data. We did not purposely exclude certain studies; we included all studies that met our inclusion criteria. Although C. J. Ferguson and J. Kilburn believe that the effects we obtained are trivial in size, they are larger than many effects that are deemed sufficiently large to warrant action in medical and violence domains. The claim that we (and other media violence scholars) are attempting to create a false crisis is a red herring

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