JMC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Social Learning Theory, Sex And The Law, Confirmation Bias
18 Nov 2017
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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: 1. Patently offensive will most of people agree that they are offended by it: 3. 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). Trigger hypothesis exposure to pornography will cause a response in some individuals that will provoke them to commit a sex crime: similar to past theories: social learning theory, priming.
