Mental beliefs about blood, and not its smell, affect presence in a violent computer game

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Highlights：

• People perform worse when believing to smell blood during a violent computer game.

• Equally, they display lower skin conductance under this condition.

• More aggressive individuals however experience increased combativeness.

• Smelling blood, merely as a sensory trigger, does not affect parameters of presence.

摘要

•People perform worse when believing to smell blood during a violent computer game.•Equally, they display lower skin conductance under this condition.•More aggressive individuals however experience increased combativeness.•Smelling blood, merely as a sensory trigger, does not affect parameters of presence.

论文关键词：Computer game,Presence,Belief,Blood,Violence

论文评审过程：Received 17 November 2015, Revised 12 April 2016, Accepted 12 June 2016, Available online 23 June 2016, Version of Record 23 June 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.06.012