Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Disinhibition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Field studies: black and bevan (1992) Aggression scales to movie goers before or after violent or nonviolent movie. Coming out of a violent movie, they feel more violent. Nothing happens with nonviolent, about the same, very low. Kids check what they watch at home. More violence the kids consume (i. e. watch) the more violence they are. Girls plateaus but boys continues up (1st yr of 3 yrs) its self-report and correlational. Why do we get these media effects: social learning or modelling, disinhibition, desensitization to pain and aggression. Does tv violence cause aggression: maybe, dr. mike leans towards yes.