August John Hoffman

TL;DR: The purpose of this comment is not to further polarize and isolate research ideology in the controversy over violent media games and aggression but rather to find common ground in how to address the systemic problem of violence in the authors' society.

TL;DR: The authors explored how participants from non-traditional backgrounds (i.e., ethnicity, culture and age) completed a variety of interethnic community service activities and found that increased exposure with members of diverse ethnic groups through Community Service activities would show reductions in ethnocentric attitudes and also show increases in the perception of the importance of social capital and future participation in community service work activities.

TL;DR: In this article, a community-based preventative approach that examines the psychological, cultural and sociological factors that contribute to modern extremism and hate crimes is presented. But, the authors do not consider the social and economic factors that are associated with extreme violence, hate crimes and terrorism.

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between participation in a community service gardening program and ethnocentrism and found that participants who participated in a gardening program would increase their perceptions of the importance of community service work and decrease their scores in ethnocentricity.