SOC209H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Attribution Bias, Longitudinal Study, Relational Aggression
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When these same children were measured 11 years later, at age 19, exposure to tv violence in third grade predicted higher levels of aggression at age. It is possible that the media effect was only seen with boys because the types of aggression assessed in that study were primarily physical aggression, which is more typical of boys than girls. In fact in later studies where nonphysical aggression was also measured (see below), effects have been found for females as well. Discussion: the amount of media exposure and the content of media exposure have different, largely independent effects. That is, exposure to aggressive media predicted aggressive behavior much more strongly than exposure to media in general. Although early mve was shown to predict later aggressive behaviors controlling for several theoretically relevant competitor variables, we were unable to experimentally manipulate children"s mve.
