JMC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Learning Theory, Sex And The Law, Confirmation Bias
13 Mar 2018
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People tend to seek, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their prior beliefs. Investigating sexual content in the media using social science theories and methods minimizes the effects of our biases and expectations. Pornography is protected under the first amendment, but obscenity is not. Individual films or items must meet all 3 standards of 1973 miller vs. california obscenity test to be considered obscene. Lacking serious artistic, literary, political or scientific value. There is anecdotal evidence that it does (anecdotal evidence means that one person or a few people report the effects, but there is not scientific evidence to generalize these effects to society). There is a correlation between rape and pornography consumption. However, there is no constant time order or ruling out third variables to indicate cause and effect. Experiments are the only method that determines causality.
