Can video games change attitudes towards history? Results from a laboratory experiment measuring short- and long-term effects

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11410/21:10433963 RIV/00216208:11320/21:10433963 RIV/00216208:11210/21:10433963
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12575" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12575</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12575" target="_blank" >10.1111/jcal.12575</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Can video games change attitudes towards history? Results from a laboratory experiment measuring short- and long-term effects
Original language description
This study investigates a video game's effects on implicit and explicit attitudes towards depicted historical events in the short- and long-term on a sample of 148 young adults. We used, as an intervention tool, a serious game Czechoslovakia 38–89: Borderlands that deals with the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from the former Czechoslovakia after the WWII. Results showed more negative pretest-posttest explicit attitude changes towards the expulsion on a general level (d = −0.34) and a specific level (d = −0.53) compared to the control group. Over the long-term, group differences in attitude change remained significant for the specific level (d = −0.44), but not for general one (d = −0.16). Exploratory analysis on the item level indicated that especially attitudes towards the expulsion's (un)fairness were affected by the game. However, no significant changes were found in implicit attitudes in the experimental group. This study is the first of such scale to empirically investigate video games' effects on a society's historical awareness.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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