Media Influences on Aggression
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- Created on: 21-04-18 13:51
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- Media Influences on Aggression
- Evaluation
- Casual variables - Why do people play VVGs? Other risk factors?
- Research problems - lab experiments don't mimic real life. Only looks at short term effects.
- More complex - there may be many different factors that impact PPL not just media
- Game difficulty - VVGs may make people frustrated not aggr.
- Media violence - very few studies look at human harm and small correlations
- Violent Video Games (VVG)
- Experimental studies - Anderson and Dill found that Ps blasted players with white noise for longer
- They also rated higher on the state hostility scale after player a shooter game compared to a puzzle game
- Porter suggests that interactive violence may have more of an influence.
- In video games the players are rewarded for being aggr.
- Longitudinal studies - Anderson surveyed 430 7-9 year olds.
- Children who had high exposure to aggr games became more aggr and less pro-social
- Experimental studies - Anderson and Dill found that Ps blasted players with white noise for longer
- Greitemeyer + Mugge (2014)
- VVG use was linked to an increase in aggr outcomes and a decrease in pro-social outcomes
- Another game in which the aim is to help PPL.
- Pro-social games reduced aggr outcomes and increased pro-social behaviour
- Meta-analysis of 98 studies + 37,000 Ps. Looked at effects of VVGs related to harming PPL.
- Violent Films and TV
- Longitudinal studies - Huesmann looked at 557 6-10 year olds + 329 15 years later
- Early exposure to Violent TV predicted adult aggr in both M&F
- Lab and Field experiments - Bjorkqvist showed 5 + 6 year olds violent + non-violent films
- Violent film watchers scored higher on a physical aggr scale.
- Meta analyses - Bushman looked at 431 studies, most studies looked at the impact of violent TV
- They found significant effects on thoughts, feelings + arousal. More short term for adults
- Longitudinal studies - Huesmann looked at 557 6-10 year olds + 329 15 years later
- Evaluation
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