The perception of realism, immersion, and outcome aggression using a gun controller or video game controller. Realism signified the individual’s comparison to the game and the real-world. Immersion was defined as the feeling of involvement, a sensation that the participant was actually ‘in” the game. Outcome aggression was defined as the individual’s ability to access or perform in a violent manner. In their study, McGloin, Farrar, and Fishlock (2015), randomly assigned each participant to a low controller naturalness condition (controller) or a high controller naturalness condition (gun). Playing a first-person shooting game emerged the weapons effect within participants. The result of the weapons effect was that gun controllers increased
