Publications by authors named "Mejdy M Jabr"
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- Aggression and violence have a substantial impact on society, with individuals exhibiting aggressive behavior often lacking effortful control, especially in emotionally charged situations.
- The study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to analyze neural processes linked to effortful control and examined how these processes relate to aggression, focusing on three specific ERP components (P2, N2, P3).
- Findings showed that N2 amplitudes were larger when participants had to switch strategies, and specifically, smaller N2 responses were associated with higher aggression in negative, high-conflict scenarios, indicating that differences in neural processing efficiency can influence aggressive behavior.
A number of studies have indicated that violent video gameplay is associated with higher levels of aggression and that desensitization and selective attention to violent content may contribute to this association. Utilizing an emotionally-charged rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task, the current study used two event-related potentials (ERPs) - the N1 and P3 - that have been associated with selective attention and desensitization as neurocognitive mechanisms potentially underlying the connection between gameplay and higher levels of aggression. Results indicated that video game players and non-players differed in N1 and P3 activation when engaged with emotionally-charged imagery.
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