Much of the attention on violent video games is examining how such games affect kids. A new University of Wisconsin-Madison study takes a different approach by looking at ways video games can manage a person’s mood, with a particular focus on frustration.
“We picked frustration first because it’s easy to frustrate people,” said James Alex Bonus, a graduate student in the Department of Communication Arts, who conducted the study with fellow grad student Alanna Peebles and assistant professor Karyn Riddle.