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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"violent media"”.
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Predictors of children's violent media use
This study examined the predictors of children’s violent media use. Predictors of violent television viewing and violent game playing were studied for children ages 6 to 12 from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement. This nationally representative dataset provides several …
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Violent Media Images as Socializing Agents: An Analysis of Role Models
… have led to subsequent increases in rates of media consumption, especially by youths. Through the increased use and access of media sources, pre-adolescents and adolescents have greater access to their role models. Research has shown that observing violent media images correlates with …
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Emotion Word Processing and Previous Exposure to Violent Media: An Eye-Tracking Study
The controversy regarding violent media influencing acts of violence is long standing and heavily debated. Most research in this area has prioritized examining correlations between the consumption of violent media and measures of aggression or desensitization with the goal of answering the question …
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Effects of Group Size on Arousal Elicited From Viewing a Violent Stimulus
… physiological and cognitive effects of viewing violent media were mediated by the presence of other people. It was hypothesized that individuals who watched a violent film clip by themselves would exhibit greater physiological arousal, and would rate the film clip as more violent, than subjects …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
… theory to investigate the ways in which print media coverage influences the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law enforcement agencies, …
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Socioeconomic Status and Media Exposure as Factors in Empathic Development.
… Further, the potential intervening variable of violent media representations within product advertisements is assessed within and between the observed socioeconomic status groups. Three critical dimensions of empathy were assessed: cognitive, affective and behavioral. Participants were 200 …
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Influences of Empathy in Children: Contextual Creation of Media and Parental Messages
… moral and empathic development, including media and parents. Regarding media, past research demonstrated the modelling effect of behaviors displayed in various media outlets. The vast majority of research in this area has examined the negative effects of violent media on children’s …