Alessandro Gabbiadini

TL;DR: It is found that participants’ gender and their identification with the violent male video game character moderated the effects of the exposure to sexist-violent video games on masculine beliefs, which supported the prediction that playing violent-sexist video games increases masculine beliefs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the amount of digital communication technology use for virtual meetings (i.e., voice and video calls, online board games and multiplayer video games, or watching movies in party mode) during the lockdown promoted the perception of social support, which in itself mitigated the psychological effects of the lockdown in Italy.

TL;DR: This paper found that violent video games decreased self-control and increased cheating and aggression, especially for people high in moral disengagement, and they predicted that violent games would increase multiple immoral behaviors (i.e., lack of selfcontrol, cheating, aggression).

TL;DR: Preliminary evidence is provided that exposure to Grand Theft Auto IV predicted higher levels of moral disengagement and recency of exposure had a primary impact on the considered mechanisms ofmoral disengagement.

TL;DR: Performing objectifying tasks led participants to objectify themselves in terms of both decreased self-attribution of human mental states and increased self-perception of being instrument-like, which mediated the relationship between performing an objectifying activity and the participants' decreased belief in personal free will.