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From: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Rape - Another Solution
Message-ID: <398@ucsfcca.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 19:19:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 19:19:41 1985
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Summary: Effect of violent TV?  Depends.

In article <29482@lanl.ARPA> crs@lanl.ARPA writes:
>
>I have read (and I largely agree) that the frequent viewing of
>violence tends to cause one to become insensitive (ie calloused) to
>violence, thus not as likely to restrain themselves, to say nothing of
>being less likely to help one who is the victim of violence.
>
I have heard of a very interesting, but little quoted, study which
offers a bit more detail on kids and violence on TV.  Please let me
know if you can cite the study.  The conclusion was that when the 
episode of violence involved the bad guys getting their comeuppance,
the kids WERE more violent in their own play.  However, when the good
guys got beat up, kids were LESS violent in their own play.  Kind of
makes you stop and think about the wisdom of the Hollywood ending...

Dick

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