Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!ucsfcca!dick 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 Article-I.D.: ucsfcca.398 Posted: Wed Aug 14 19:19:41 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:25:48 EDT References: <2402@amdcad.UUCP> <29482@lanl.ARPA> Reply-To: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) Organization: UCSF Computer Center Lines: 22 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 -- Dick Karpinski Manager of Unix Services, UCSF Computer Center UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!dick (415) 666-4529 (12-7) BITNET: dick@ucsfcca Compuserve: 70215,1277 Telemail: RKarpinski USPS: U-76 UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143