Researchers have long known that watching violence on TV or in movies ratchets up aggression, but what about watching people being mean to one another? Could watching Mean Girls make you as aggressive as watching Kill Bill?
A new study suggests the answer is yes.
Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne and colleagues asked 53 British college-aged women to watch one of three video clips, featuring either physical aggression (a knife fight from Kill Bill), relational aggression (a montage from Mean Girls) or no aggression (a séance scene from the horror movie What Lies Beneath). They then filled out a brief questionnaire and were allowed to leave the room. Right outside was another researcher who asked if they would like to participate in a study involving reaction times.
Gee, people act like the people they see around them (even if on television). Who would have guessed that?
This is why we got rid of all TV in our house.
Yawn… RJ and mugsie already said it.
Do you suppose that’s at least part of the reason we’re instructed to [url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=57&chapter=4&verse=8&version=47&context=verse]think on these things[/url]?
Experts on TV viewing (hired by the networks) will say that tv has no effect on habits or behavior of the viewers.
Advertisers spend billions of dollars each year proving them wrong.
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Let me try that one again:
Experts on TV viewing (hired by the networks) will say that tv has no effect on habits or behavior of the viewers.
Advertisers spend billions of dollars each year for commercials on network and cable broadcasts proving them wrong.
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So why do researchers from Utah have to go all the way to the UK to do their testing ??? Seems a bit obtuse. Are Mormons off limits ?