For yet another line of research pointing to the same types of conclusions as the laboratory and correlational studies that David refers to check out T.M. Williams (Ed.)The impact of television: A natural experiment involving three towns, NY: Academic. Joy,et al found increased levels of aggression after television was introduced into a remote town. Many lines of evidence converge in this area. Video games not only show violence, but they also encourage rehearsal and reward violent acts. Remember, the kids at Columbine were taking people out with one shot. There is a great episode of the Simpsons that deals with this issue.
-----Original Message----- From: Goss, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:30 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: Media and TV However, in literature and story telling the images were generally self-generated. In visual media someone else provides the image. __________________________ Bill Goss College of the Rockies Box 8500 Cranbrook, BC, Canada V1C 5L7 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: 250-489-2751 or 1-877-489-2687 (toll free) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:29 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: Media and TV And let's not forget that classic (European) fairy tales are quite bloody and gorey, and I believe that is quite true of most cultures' mythological stories. Annette Quoting David Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D. went: > > > If the latest research is 30 years old, its time some people got to > work. > > I agree with that! > > > The latest playstation kickboxing games, and others, look real as > > hell to me. When students tell me that the movie "Ghandi" was > > boring except for the massacre scene, and my 15 year old comes home > > a few months ago and tells me that a few of her classmates thought > > that the images of 9/11 were "cool", an alarm bell goes off. Women > > fainted when they saw the original Frankenstein with Karloff in the > > 1930's. Today people watch mass murders, rapes, decapitations, > > buckets of blood exploding, and eat popcorn at the same time. Don't > > tell me we're more "sophisticated" today. > > I won't. Instead, I'll present some literary evidence that children's > fondness for images of gore was very much apparent in the 1930s (the > decade you cite). Here's an excerpt from a poem published by Ogden > Nash in 1935. The title is "Don't Cry, Darling, It's Blood All > Right." > > ...Hardboiled, sophisticated adults like me and you > May enjoy ourselves thoroughly with Little Women and > Winnie-the-Pooh, > But innocent infants these titles from their reading course > eliminate > As soon as they discover that it was honey and nuts and mashed > potatoes instead of human flesh that Winnie-the-Pooh and > Little Women ate. > Innocent infants have no use for fables about rabbits or donkeys > or tortoises or porpoises, > What they want is something with plenty of well-mutilated > corpoises. > Not on legends of how the rose came to be a rose instead of a > petunia is their fancy fed, > But on the inside story of how somebody's bones got ground up > to make somebody else's bread. > They'll go to sleep listening to the story of the little > beggarmaid who got to be queen by being kind to the bees and > the birds, > But they're all eyes and ears the minute they suspect a wolf > or a giant is going to tear some poor woodcutter into > quarters or thirds. [...] > > I'm not sure that the children of 1935, as described by Nash, were > very different from the students you're describing now. Might they > not have perked up during the massacre scene in _Gandhi_? Might they > not have described the images (not the events, but the images) of > September 11 as "cool" (or the contemporary equivalent)? > > Someone show me evidence that there's been a change. > > --David Epstein > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Taylor, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology University of San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
