A game development studio, OmniReal, is designing a highly immersive, virtual-reality tactical combat game aimed at teenagers. The studio's lead designers want to minimize the risk of their game increasing real-world aggressive behaviour among players while maintaining engaging gameplay. The design team needs to make key decisions regarding the level of graphic realism in weapon effects, the narrative framing of violent actions (e.g., whether violence is rewarded or shown as justified), and the inclusion of realistic environmental aggression cues.
Using your knowledge of psychological research into media influences on aggression, what advice and explanations would you offer to OmniReal to help them understand and mitigate the potential aggressive influences of their new game?
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Aggression with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 71 questions covering Neural, hormonal and genetic factors in aggression, Ethological and evolutionary explanations of aggression, Social psychological explanations of aggression, Institutional aggression in prisons, and Media influences on aggression, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.