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media influence

Published on Feb 13, 2020

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media influence

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lab study - exposed Finnish children to violent and non violent films

 children mimicked the behaviour and learnt aggressive behaviour
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Anderson - Mortal Kombat in comparison to golf

 aggressive behaviour increased after playing Mortal Kombat than golf
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longitudinal study - Huesman - 557 children and checked their aggression levels 15 years later -

  exposure to film violence - found that the children were more aggressive
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Metanalysis - Bushman - 432 studies

 264 = aggression in children, 168= aggression in adults -  correlation between being aggressive when you are younger as well as older 

evaluation

Issues of Longitudinal studies - time periods can change

1Heusman's study may be  - what may be seen as aggressive in one time period can change over tim

metanalysis

 we don't know how reliable other studies are, how controlled their variables were, time consuming
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Anderson's Mortal Combat

 giving evidence for FAH - Frustration aggressive hypothesis - frustration not aggression from losing

studies are reductionist

  neglecting other factors e.g. genetic factors, hormonal and neural, mental health