[hinckley buzzard]

Research data going back decades before videogames explored the effects on children's behavior of watching aggressive behavior by a model. It makes good sense to expect that practising aggressive behavior without being held acccountable for it, indeed finding it intrinsically rewarding, would tend to generalize to other circumstances.

[abb]

Anytime anyone suggests that violence in movies, or in video games desensitizes the culture towards violence, the Hollywood crowd leaps to defend their craft. First Amendment and all that.

But there exists a multi-trillion dollar worldwide industry that does influence behavior through the use of moving pictures, art, photographs, sound, and words.

It’s called advertising.

[ptsal]

...Wow...does advertising have an impact on behavior???

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Whodda thought????