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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Christian Happ is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Trier, Germany. Before, he studied Psychology in Marburg, Germany, and Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is interested in research focussing on topics from Social, Media and Business Psychology.
André Melzer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Luxembourg. His main research interests focus on entertainment media. He has published widely on the effects of violent video games on antisocial and prosocial behavior. His most recent publications analyzed empathy and the moral implications of violent video games, both with regard to players' motivation and the consequences of playing these games.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empathy and Violent Video Games
Book Subtitle: Aggression and Prosocial Behavior
Authors: Christian Happ, André Melzer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440136
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44012-9Published: 21 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44013-6Published: 21 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2946-2754
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2762
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 78
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Media Studies, Emotion, Community and Environmental Psychology