Johnson & Wales University ScholarsArchive@JWU Academic Symposium of Undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences Scholarship Spring 2015 Maddening: The mpI act of Genre on Frustration and Aggression V. B. Stalletti Johnson & Wales University - Providence,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/ac_symposium Part of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Stalletti, V. B., "Maddening: The mpI act of Genre on Frustration and Aggression" (2015). Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship. 33. https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/ac_symposium/33 This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts & Sciences at ScholarsArchive@JWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship by an authorized administrator of ScholarsArchive@JWU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Stalletti 1 Madden ing: The Impact of Genre on Frustration and Aggression By V.B. Stalletti 11/22/14 Winter 2014 Dr. Kordas Dr. Oberacker Dr. Westgate Stalletti 2 Abstract Video games have been thrust into the national spotlight after multiple mass shootings of recent years, begging the question of whether they corrupt our youth. At least three sides to the argument exist: those who believe violent video games result in increased levels of aggression, those who do not, and those who claim that aggression is linked with losing rather than violent content. While there have been plenty of studies focusing on losing and aggression in the action genre of video games, there has yet to be a conclusive study ranking and comparing the impact that other major genres have on gamers.