Amir Hetsroni
Biographic Data
| ID | 648966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amir Hetsroni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amir |
| FAMILY NAME | Hetsroni |
| SIGNATURE | HETSRONI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stereotypical Gender Attributions across Sexual Orientations on Tinder
In this study we examine the accuracy of stereotypical gendered attributions of Tinder users and compare them across sexual orientation lines. We randomly sampled 2,539 Tinder users from Turkey and analyzed their photos for decorative artifacts. The results indicate a significant difference between heterosexual women and lesbians, with the latter adopting less feminine decorative artifacts and displaying more masculine decorative artifacts. The d…
Revealing images as Facebook profile pictures
In this study, we examined the impact of demographics and relationship status on posting a revealing picture of oneself as a profile picture on Facebook. We randomly sampled and coded 1,000 profiles of Israeli Facebook users ranging in age between 18 and 61 years. Over 40% of the profiles showed at least 1 picture of the user dressed in a skimpy outfit. Results of a multiple logistic regression model indicated that younger age, a lower level of e…
Interest Rate Demands and Television Viewing—Is a Single Exposure More Influential Than Routine Viewing
This study examined the impact of media consumption, and particularly exposure to television, on decisions regarding interest rate demands. One hundred and fifty-four participants were randomly divided into two groups: in the manipulation group, participants were exposed to a news clip about an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, whereas in the control group, the participants were not exposed to the film. Both groups filled a questionnaires regardi…
Does Helping Others Impair Caregivers' Health? Associating Caregiving, Life Satisfaction, and Physical Health
We examined whether or not negative caregiving orientations, namely hyperactivation and deactivation, impair physical health of caregivers through the mediating role of life satisfaction. A sample of Israeli adults ( N = 354) completed self-report scales measuring caregiving, life satisfaction, and self-rated health (SRH). Caregiving hyperactivation and deactivation predicted reductions in both life satisfaction and SRH of caregivers. A mediation…
Caregiving Representations at Work and the Moderating Role of Job Self-Efficacy
This study measured the effect of job self-efficacy and caregiving dimensions (hyperactivation and deactivation) on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in a sample of 160 customer service workers. While job self-efficacy and caregiving deactivation independently had moderate main effects on OCB-Individual and OCB-Organizational, the effect of caregiving hyperactivation was smaller and significantly contributed solely to OCB-Organizational. …
Media Exposure and Romantic Relationship Quality
This study examines whether media consumption predicted relationship quality among 188 college students who were involved in romantic relationships. The respondents assessed their commitment to the relationship, their satisfaction from the relationship, and their tendency to engage in conflicts within the relationship. Media consumption was measured by assessing the time dedicated to television viewing in general, watching specific genres, Intern…
Is She an Expert or Just a Woman? Gender Differences in the Presentation of Experts in TV Talk Shows
Cultivation and Counter Cultivation
Religiosity may change the direction of the effect of TV viewing on assessment of the likelihood of personal victimization and estimates concerning crime prevalence. A content analysis of a representative sample of TV programming (56 hours of prime-time shows) was done to identify the most common crimes on television, followed by a survey of a representative sample of the adult public in a large urban district (778 respondents) who were asked to …
Associations between Television Viewing and Love Styles
This study evaluated the associations between television viewing and love styles. The Love Attitudes Scale (LAS), based on Lee's love style taxonomy, was administered to a sample of 338 unmarried Israeli students along with questions about TV viewing habits, current involvement in a serious romantic relationship, and marital intentions. A confirmatory factor analysis of the LAS indicated that the expected six-factor solution adequately fit the da…
Violent Crime on American Television
This article reviews six decades of studies regarding the presentation of violent crime on American television, and its impact. We critically discuss the major findings and analyze the political-public discourse regarding the macro-social effects of fictional and non-fictional televised violent crime. The claim made here is that this discourse created “too much fuss over not too much blame” in order to mark television as the agent in responsibili…
Pluralistic media ignorance
This study examines the presence and causes of pluralistic media ignorance – incorrect estimation of media content in a way that creates the impression that popular broadcasting is overabundant with morally controversial material. Using the appearance of sexual content in television advertising in Israel as a case study, we compare survey estimates (N = 305) of the prevalence of this material with its actual level according to the findings of a c…
The rise and fall of the right to “proper representation”
This article reviews the content and effects of the regulation policy that has been enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s to increase the share of elite formats (drama, documentary films) and expand the presence of minorities, geographical periphery and women in commercial TV programming. We discuss the rationale for the regulation policy and try to explain why it failed, and in what way this failure has contributed to the financial crisis curre…
Four Decades of Violent Content on Prime-Time Network Programming
Journal Article Four Decades of Violent Content on Prime-Time Network Programming: A Longitudinal Meta-Analytic Review Get access Amir Hetsroni Amir Hetsroni 1Department of Communication, Yezreel Valley College, 31 Erez Street, Carmei Yosef 99797, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 2007, Pages 759–784, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2007.00367…
Three Decades of Sexual Content on Prime-Time Network Programming
This paper uses meta-analysis to review 25 content analyses that examined the frequency of sexual content on American prime-time network programming between 1975 and 2004. The overall sample is composed 2,558 hours of broadcasts from 18 seasons. The frequency per hour of most of the sexual contents consistently decreased over the years. This is particularly notable for dialogues about sex and normative heterosexual conduct, but it is also true fo…
Open or Closed — This Is the Question
This study uses open ended and multiple choice questionnaires to examine the influence of question format on the cultivation effect. Student respondents (N=517) were requested to estimate the prevalence of criminality, single parent families, and sexual activity among teens in the society. The given estimates were compared to real world figures and to TV world values that were obtained from a content analysis of one week of prime-time network pro…
Geographical Proximity, Cultural Imperialism, and the Cultivation Effect
This work investigates the influence of geographical proximity on the cultivation effect in the context of cultural imperialism. A content analysis of prime-time programming (n=63 hours) is used to compose questions about the prevalence of different occupations in the USA and Israel. A sample of 655 students answered these questions. Viewing of American programming was significantly correlated with a tendency to hold a biased estimation of the pr…
Sexual Content on Mainstream TV Advertising
Television-World Estimates, Real-World Estimates, and Television Viewing
Journal Article Television-World Estimates, Real-World Estimates, and Television Viewing: A New Scheme for Cultivation Get access Amir Hetsroni, Amir Hetsroni 1Department of Communication, Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley 19300, Israel *fax: 972-8-9286325; 31 Erez Street, Carmei-Yosef, 99797 Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Riva H. Tukachinsky Riva H. Tukachinsky 1Department of Communication, …
Globalization and Knowledge Hierarchy Through the Eyes of a Quiz Show
The study compares the quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire in seven countries – America, Germany, Italy, Russia, Poland, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Through content analysis of 1,888 questions that were collected from 65 programs, this work aims to ascertain the extent of globalization and the structure of knowledge hierarchy, as they find expression in a successful international television format. Three cultural profiles emerge: American, weste…
The Millionaire Project
(2004). The Millionaire Project: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Quiz Shows From the United States, Russia, Poland, Norway, Finland, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Mass Communication and Society: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 133-156
“Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” in America,Russia, and Saudi Arabia
This study compares the themes of questions asked in the quiz show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire in America, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. One thousand one hundred and three questions (383 from American programs, 398 from Russian programs, and 322 from Saudi programs) were sampled. Of the themes national identity, popular culture, high brow culture, and politics and economy the Saudi quiz overemphasizes national identity, as does to a lesser extent t…
Differences between Jewish–Israeli and Arab–Israeli college students in attitudes toward date selection and sex relations
Jewish and Arab–Moslem students attending an Israeli college were compared for their date selection criteria and their attitudes toward sexual relations. Questionnaires were completed by 214 Jews and 162 Arabs. Seventy percent of the respondents in both groups were women. Jews (more than Arabs) and males (more than females) showed a greater tendency to mention physical appearance as a selection criterion. In both ethnic groups, women thought that…
Public Attitudes toward Abortion in Israel
Objective . For the first time since the mid‐1970s, this study explored sociodemographic correlates of abortion attitudes among Israeli Jews and compared them with those reported by the General Social Survey in the United States. Methods . A survey in the representative sample of Jewish adults living in urban areas across Israel ( N = 546) that included two related items on the attitude toward abortion for nonvital reasons. Results . Using multip…
Choosing a Mate in Television Dating Games
All we were saying was give peace a chance
This study investigated whether later-in-life high school peace activists remained a discrete body as they were in high school (i.e., still different from their age cohorts). The participants were 39 of approximately 150 former Israeli high school seniors who, as 2 separate groups, signed protest letters in 1970 and 1987, expressing dissatisfaction with their government's unwillingness to make further efforts for peace with the Arabs. The partici…
Television-World Estimates, Real-World Estimates, and Television Viewing
Journal Article Television-World Estimates, Real-World Estimates, and Television Viewing: A New Scheme for Cultivation Get access Amir Hetsroni, Amir Hetsroni 1Department of Communication, Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley 19300, Israel *fax: 972-8-9286325; 31 Erez Street, Carmei-Yosef, 99797 Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Riva H. Tukachinsky Riva H. Tukachinsky 1Department of Communication, …
Is She an Expert or Just a Woman? Gender Differences in the Presentation of Experts in TV Talk Shows
Sexual Content on Mainstream TV Advertising
Choosing a Mate in Television Dating Games
Violent Crime on American Television
This article reviews six decades of studies regarding the presentation of violent crime on American television, and its impact. We critically discuss the major findings and analyze the political-public discourse regarding the macro-social effects of fictional and non-fictional televised violent crime. The claim made here is that this discourse created “too much fuss over not too much blame” in order to mark television as the agent in responsibili…
Geographical Proximity, Cultural Imperialism, and the Cultivation Effect
This work investigates the influence of geographical proximity on the cultivation effect in the context of cultural imperialism. A content analysis of prime-time programming (n=63 hours) is used to compose questions about the prevalence of different occupations in the USA and Israel. A sample of 655 students answered these questions. Viewing of American programming was significantly correlated with a tendency to hold a biased estimation of the pr…
The Millionaire Project
(2004). The Millionaire Project: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Quiz Shows From the United States, Russia, Poland, Norway, Finland, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Mass Communication and Society: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 133-156
The rise and fall of the right to “proper representation”
This article reviews the content and effects of the regulation policy that has been enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s to increase the share of elite formats (drama, documentary films) and expand the presence of minorities, geographical periphery and women in commercial TV programming. We discuss the rationale for the regulation policy and try to explain why it failed, and in what way this failure has contributed to the financial crisis curre…
Public Attitudes toward Abortion in Israel
Objective . For the first time since the mid‐1970s, this study explored sociodemographic correlates of abortion attitudes among Israeli Jews and compared them with those reported by the General Social Survey in the United States. Methods . A survey in the representative sample of Jewish adults living in urban areas across Israel ( N = 546) that included two related items on the attitude toward abortion for nonvital reasons. Results . Using multip…
All we were saying was give peace a chance
This study investigated whether later-in-life high school peace activists remained a discrete body as they were in high school (i.e., still different from their age cohorts). The participants were 39 of approximately 150 former Israeli high school seniors who, as 2 separate groups, signed protest letters in 1970 and 1987, expressing dissatisfaction with their government's unwillingness to make further efforts for peace with the Arabs. The partici…
Choosing a Mate in Television Dating Games
Public Attitudes toward Abortion in Israel
Objective . For the first time since the mid‐1970s, this study explored sociodemographic correlates of abortion attitudes among Israeli Jews and compared them with those reported by the General Social Survey in the United States. Methods . A survey in the representative sample of Jewish adults living in urban areas across Israel ( N = 546) that included two related items on the attitude toward abortion for nonvital reasons. Results . Using multip…
Differences between Jewish–Israeli and Arab–Israeli college students in attitudes toward date selection and sex relations
Jewish and Arab–Moslem students attending an Israeli college were compared for their date selection criteria and their attitudes toward sexual relations. Questionnaires were completed by 214 Jews and 162 Arabs. Seventy percent of the respondents in both groups were women. Jews (more than Arabs) and males (more than females) showed a greater tendency to mention physical appearance as a selection criterion. In both ethnic groups, women thought that…
“Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” in America,Russia, and Saudi Arabia
This study compares the themes of questions asked in the quiz show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire in America, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. One thousand one hundred and three questions (383 from American programs, 398 from Russian programs, and 322 from Saudi programs) were sampled. Of the themes national identity, popular culture, high brow culture, and politics and economy the Saudi quiz overemphasizes national identity, as does to a lesser extent t…
The Millionaire Project
(2004). The Millionaire Project: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Quiz Shows From the United States, Russia, Poland, Norway, Finland, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Mass Communication and Society: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 133-156
Globalization and Knowledge Hierarchy Through the Eyes of a Quiz Show
The study compares the quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire in seven countries – America, Germany, Italy, Russia, Poland, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Through content analysis of 1,888 questions that were collected from 65 programs, this work aims to ascertain the extent of globalization and the structure of knowledge hierarchy, as they find expression in a successful international television format. Three cultural profiles emerge: American, weste…
Television-World Estimates, Real-World Estimates, and Television Viewing
Journal Article Television-World Estimates, Real-World Estimates, and Television Viewing: A New Scheme for Cultivation Get access Amir Hetsroni, Amir Hetsroni 1Department of Communication, Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley 19300, Israel *fax: 972-8-9286325; 31 Erez Street, Carmei-Yosef, 99797 Israel. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Riva H. Tukachinsky Riva H. Tukachinsky 1Department of Communication, …
Four Decades of Violent Content on Prime-Time Network Programming
Journal Article Four Decades of Violent Content on Prime-Time Network Programming: A Longitudinal Meta-Analytic Review Get access Amir Hetsroni Amir Hetsroni 1Department of Communication, Yezreel Valley College, 31 Erez Street, Carmei Yosef 99797, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 2007, Pages 759–784, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2007.00367…
Three Decades of Sexual Content on Prime-Time Network Programming
This paper uses meta-analysis to review 25 content analyses that examined the frequency of sexual content on American prime-time network programming between 1975 and 2004. The overall sample is composed 2,558 hours of broadcasts from 18 seasons. The frequency per hour of most of the sexual contents consistently decreased over the years. This is particularly notable for dialogues about sex and normative heterosexual conduct, but it is also true fo…
Open or Closed — This Is the Question
This study uses open ended and multiple choice questionnaires to examine the influence of question format on the cultivation effect. Student respondents (N=517) were requested to estimate the prevalence of criminality, single parent families, and sexual activity among teens in the society. The given estimates were compared to real world figures and to TV world values that were obtained from a content analysis of one week of prime-time network pro…
Geographical Proximity, Cultural Imperialism, and the Cultivation Effect
This work investigates the influence of geographical proximity on the cultivation effect in the context of cultural imperialism. A content analysis of prime-time programming (n=63 hours) is used to compose questions about the prevalence of different occupations in the USA and Israel. A sample of 655 students answered these questions. Viewing of American programming was significantly correlated with a tendency to hold a biased estimation of the pr…
Sexual Content on Mainstream TV Advertising
The rise and fall of the right to “proper representation”
This article reviews the content and effects of the regulation policy that has been enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s to increase the share of elite formats (drama, documentary films) and expand the presence of minorities, geographical periphery and women in commercial TV programming. We discuss the rationale for the regulation policy and try to explain why it failed, and in what way this failure has contributed to the financial crisis curre…
Pluralistic media ignorance
This study examines the presence and causes of pluralistic media ignorance – incorrect estimation of media content in a way that creates the impression that popular broadcasting is overabundant with morally controversial material. Using the appearance of sexual content in television advertising in Israel as a case study, we compare survey estimates (N = 305) of the prevalence of this material with its actual level according to the findings of a c…
Associations between Television Viewing and Love Styles
This study evaluated the associations between television viewing and love styles. The Love Attitudes Scale (LAS), based on Lee's love style taxonomy, was administered to a sample of 338 unmarried Israeli students along with questions about TV viewing habits, current involvement in a serious romantic relationship, and marital intentions. A confirmatory factor analysis of the LAS indicated that the expected six-factor solution adequately fit the da…
Violent Crime on American Television
This article reviews six decades of studies regarding the presentation of violent crime on American television, and its impact. We critically discuss the major findings and analyze the political-public discourse regarding the macro-social effects of fictional and non-fictional televised violent crime. The claim made here is that this discourse created “too much fuss over not too much blame” in order to mark television as the agent in responsibili…
Cultivation and Counter Cultivation
Religiosity may change the direction of the effect of TV viewing on assessment of the likelihood of personal victimization and estimates concerning crime prevalence. A content analysis of a representative sample of TV programming (56 hours of prime-time shows) was done to identify the most common crimes on television, followed by a survey of a representative sample of the adult public in a large urban district (778 respondents) who were asked to …
Media Exposure and Romantic Relationship Quality
This study examines whether media consumption predicted relationship quality among 188 college students who were involved in romantic relationships. The respondents assessed their commitment to the relationship, their satisfaction from the relationship, and their tendency to engage in conflicts within the relationship. Media consumption was measured by assessing the time dedicated to television viewing in general, watching specific genres, Intern…
Is She an Expert or Just a Woman? Gender Differences in the Presentation of Experts in TV Talk Shows
Does Helping Others Impair Caregivers' Health? Associating Caregiving, Life Satisfaction, and Physical Health
We examined whether or not negative caregiving orientations, namely hyperactivation and deactivation, impair physical health of caregivers through the mediating role of life satisfaction. A sample of Israeli adults ( N = 354) completed self-report scales measuring caregiving, life satisfaction, and self-rated health (SRH). Caregiving hyperactivation and deactivation predicted reductions in both life satisfaction and SRH of caregivers. A mediation…
Caregiving Representations at Work and the Moderating Role of Job Self-Efficacy
This study measured the effect of job self-efficacy and caregiving dimensions (hyperactivation and deactivation) on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in a sample of 160 customer service workers. While job self-efficacy and caregiving deactivation independently had moderate main effects on OCB-Individual and OCB-Organizational, the effect of caregiving hyperactivation was smaller and significantly contributed solely to OCB-Organizational. …
Revealing images as Facebook profile pictures
In this study, we examined the impact of demographics and relationship status on posting a revealing picture of oneself as a profile picture on Facebook. We randomly sampled and coded 1,000 profiles of Israeli Facebook users ranging in age between 18 and 61 years. Over 40% of the profiles showed at least 1 picture of the user dressed in a skimpy outfit. Results of a multiple logistic regression model indicated that younger age, a lower level of e…
Interest Rate Demands and Television Viewing—Is a Single Exposure More Influential Than Routine Viewing
This study examined the impact of media consumption, and particularly exposure to television, on decisions regarding interest rate demands. One hundred and fifty-four participants were randomly divided into two groups: in the manipulation group, participants were exposed to a news clip about an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, whereas in the control group, the participants were not exposed to the film. Both groups filled a questionnaires regardi…
Stereotypical Gender Attributions across Sexual Orientations on Tinder
In this study we examine the accuracy of stereotypical gendered attributions of Tinder users and compare them across sexual orientation lines. We randomly sampled 2,539 Tinder users from Turkey and analyzed their photos for decorative artifacts. The results indicate a significant difference between heterosexual women and lesbians, with the latter adopting less feminine decorative artifacts and displaying more masculine decorative artifacts. The d…
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