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

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985807%3A_____%2F21%3A00544560" target="_blank" >RIV/67985807:_____/21:00544560 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11410/21:10433963 RIV/00216208:11320/21:10433963 RIV/00216208:11210/21:10433963

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

Výsledek vznikl pri realizaci vícero projektů. Více informací v záložce Projekty.

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

ISSN

0266-4909

e-ISSN

1365-2729

Svazek periodika

37

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

1348-1369

Kód UT WoS článku

000680947200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85111776959