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-57% of TV program contain violence
-Children programming contains 5 times more violence than prime time television.
-25% of violent acts involve handguns
-Children’s TV shows contain about 20 violent acts each hour
Children can’t tell what is real from fiction
- lack of real-life experience
- believe what they see
- they imitate what they see
Violence is often rewarded and seldom has negative consequences.
- 73% of perpetrators on TV are unpunished (National Television Violence Study, 1992)
- Heroes are rarely unpunished
- no bleeding, no one gets hurt
- people killed just disappear
Aggressor effect-
encourages violent behavior
accepting violence as a way to solve problem
Victim effect-
increasing fearfulness
perceives “culture of meanness”
Bystander effectleads to callousness, accepting violence as normal, & dulls the emotion response to violence and its victim
Appetite effect
builds a desire to watch more violence