Anti-social Behaviour - Desensitisation
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- Anti-Social Behaviour - Desensitisation
- Huesmann et al
- Longitudinal study of 557 American children
- Asked the their favourite TV characters
- 15 years later they found 398 of them and interviewed their friends and examined their crime records
- Found that viewing TV violence in childhood correlated with adult aggression
- Attrition in sample
- Crimes on criminal records could be non-violent e.g. stealing
- Could be social desirability in interview or friends could be lying about them
- Could have other life events that caused them to be violent rather than watching violent TV programmes
- Williams
- Observed children in playgrounds in Canada before TV was introduced
- Before TV was introduced children were not very aggressive
- After TV was introduced, children were observed again and were found to be more aggressive.
- Culture bias - can only be generalised to people living in Canada.
- Natural experiment - high external validity
- Natural experiment - cannot determine cause and effect
- Huesmann et al
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