PSYC 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heritability, Social Isolation, Emotional Contagion
6 Apr 2016
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The study of: how behaviour, thoughts, and emotions can in uence a person"s physical health, how our physical health can in uence our behaviour, thoughts, and emotions. Smoking is a learned social behaviour, people are more likely to smoke if members of their family also smoke or if they belong to a culture or social group in which smoking is very common. A study of adolescents revealed a positive correlation between whether they had tried smoking and their exposure to movies with favourable depictions of smoking. In another study, even adolescents who hadn"t smoked before were more likely to report smoking as an aspect of their own identity if they responded positively to a cigarette-smoking movie character. From 1990 to 2007, there was an association between rates of smoking in movies and rates of smoking among adolescents. In the 1900"s, the warning labels on cigarettes didn"t seem to have an effect; they were too easy to ignore.
