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Rene Weber

Professor, Media Neuroscience Lab, University of California Santa Barbara
Verified email at ucsb.edu
Cited by 6348

Does playing violent video games induce aggression? Empirical evidence of a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

R Weber, U Ritterfeld, K Mathiak - Media psychology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to advance the media effects debate concerning violent video games. Meta-analytic
reviews reveal a small but noticeable association between playing violent video …

[HTML][HTML] The extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development and applications of a crowd-sourced approach to extracting moral intuitions from text

…, JT Fisher, D Cornell, R Huskey, R Weber - Behavior research …, 2021 - Springer
Moral intuitions are a central motivator in human behavior. Recent work highlights the
importance of moral intuitions for understanding a wide range of issues ranging from online …

Theorizing flow and media enjoyment as cognitive synchronization of attentional and reward networks

R Weber, R Tamborini, A Westcott-Baker… - Communication …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This article reconceptualizes the psychological concept of “flow” as it pertains to media
entertainment. Our goal is to advance flow theory in ways that highlight the necessity of reliable …

Neural contributions to flow experience during video game playing

M Klasen, R Weber, TTJ Kircher… - Social cognitive and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Video games are an exciting part of new media. Although game play has been intensively
studied, the underlying neurobiology is still poorly understood. Flow theory is a well-…

Neural predictors of message effectiveness during counterarguing in antidrug campaigns

R Weber, R Huskey, JM Mangus… - Communication …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A substantial amount of research has focused on predicting the effectiveness of persuasive
messages. However, characteristics of both the message itself and its receiver can impact …

Video games for entertainment and education

U Ritterfeld, R Weber - Playing video games: Motives, responses …, 2006 - books.google.com
DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700-26 While the morality of games and their ethical implications
in an educational context have been questioned from the very beginning of game …

Toward brain correlates of natural behavior: fMRI during violent video games

K Mathiak, R Weber - Human brain mapping, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Modern video games represent highly advanced virtual reality simulations and often contain
virtual violence. In a significant amount of young males, playing video games is a quotidian …

“They may be pixels, but they're MY pixels:” Developing a metric of character attachment in role-playing video games

ML Lewis, R Weber, ND Bowman - CyberPsychology & Behavior, 2008 - liebertpub.com
This paper proposes a new and reliable metric for measuring character attachment (CA), the
connection felt by a video game player toward a video game character. Results of construct …

[PDF][PDF] An agenda for open science in communication

…, JT Fisher, J Banks, R Weber… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In the last 10 years, many canonical findings in the social sciences appear unreliable. This
so-called “replication crisis” has spurred calls for open science practices, which aim to …

A critical assessment of null hypothesis significance testing in quantitative communication research

TR Levine, R Weber, C Hullett, HS Park… - Human …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the most widely accepted and frequently used
approach to statistical inference in quantitative communication research. NHST, however, is …