Abstract
This chapter deals with violence, aggression, and other behavioral effects of television and media. The most persistent and one of the most controversial of all questions regarding screen media and young viewers is aggressive and antisocial behavior and their link, if any, with violent entertainment. The chapter discusses pioneering laboratory-type experiments that have served as a paradigm for the subsequent research on behavioral effects of television. The chapter discusses the meta-analyses that record quantitatively a positive association between violence viewing and aggression and antisocial behavior. The chapter also focuses on the role of cognitive dispositions—attitudes, beliefs, and values—in any link between violence viewing and behavior. The role of such mediating factors as predispositions, age, gender, and severity of behavior are also elaborated. The strength of the so-called “reverse” hypothesis and three other hypothesized effects of violent screen entertainment—fear, desensitization, and cultivation—are discussed in the chapter.
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