On-line Social Decision Making and Antisocial Behavior: Some Essential but Neglected Issues

Fontaine, Reid Griffith. “On-line Social Decision Making and Antisocial Behavior: Some Essential but Neglected Issues.” Clinical Psychology Review 28.1 (2008): 17-35 Scholar Search. Web. 11 Mar. 2010.

Reid Griffith Fontaine, who is a member of the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona, argues that most other scholars of psychology have neglected to write about the issues of nonconscious cognitive factors, learning and development, impulsivity and behavioral disinhibition, and emotion. As a result, Fontaine addresses those issues and how they affect on-line social decision making and antisocial behavior in youth. He seems to say that behavior can be impulsive, subconscious, and illogical. He also argues that much of a person’s impulsive adult behavior as an adult was learned in his early childhood. He also seems to say that emotions can trigger actions. This helps to prove that video games played early on in childhood can cause a child to have the behaviors he learned from the games as an adult, and it can also cause emotions in him that could trigger antisocial or violent actions.