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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape - Another Solution (violence in art)
Message-ID: <2666@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 14:10:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 14:10:12 1985
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Summary: Studies on violence

In article <679@ttidcc.UUCP>, hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
> In article <1079@ames.UUCP> barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
> >	It's important to remember that it has never been shown that vicarious
> >violence (movies, books, etc.) causes violent behavior; It is an area of
> >current controversy.
> 
> There have been many studies done with  children  that  demonstrate  beyond
> reasonable doubt that watching violent behavior on television or file leads
> to increased aggression and violence in the watcher's  behavior.  There  is
> some  controversy  as  to  whether  this is true of adults, though there is
> sufficient evidence to conclude that watching violence at  least  causes  a
> desensitization.


I believe that there have been studies by George Gerbner, Dean of the
School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, which reported
that people who watched television often generally were more suspicious,
believed more often that WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE THE VICTIMS OF CRIME,
and beleved with greater likelihood that they could be victims.
> 
> 
> >                                                           ... But without
> >conflict there *is* no story.
> 
> There's always character studies and documentaries. (-:
> 
What about spirituality, romance, and mytstical experience?  What about
abstract art?