NCJ Number
147152
Editor(s)
G A Comstock,
E A Rubinstein,
J P Murray
Date Published
1972
Length
381 pages
Annotation
These 13 papers present research findings regarding the relationship between violence on television and human behavior.
Abstract
The studies used a variety of film or television stimuli, across different age groups, some with different sexes, and each in its own setting. Individual papers focus on facial expressions of emotion while watching televised violence as predictors of subsequent aggression, televised violence and dream content, racial issues related to television violence, and social class and racial differences in children's perceptions of televised violence. Additional papers focus on what children of different ages learn from violence on color television, arousal and aggression as mediated by films and television, and whether television produces a catharsis of aggression among institutionalized boys. Figures, tables, and chapter reference lists