Women's Reactions to Sexually Aggressive Mass Media Depictions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12436632
AutoresCarol Krafka (Silver Spring, Maryland, autor correspondente), Daniel Linz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Edward Donnerstein (University of California, Santa Barbara), Steven Penrod (0000-0002-3531-8989, University of Nebraska)
Ano1997
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas149-181
Data de publicação1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801297003002004
PMID12294812
OpenAlexW2122531524
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas52

The idea that the media contribute to a cultural climate that is supportive of attitudes facilitating violence against women, diminishes concern for female victims (desensitization), and produces negative changes in women's views of themselves was investigated. Women viewed a film per day for 4 days from one of three categories: a) sexually explicit but nonviolent stimuli, b) sexually explicit, sexually violent stimuli, and c) mildly sexually explicit, graphically violent stimuli. They then served as jurors in a simulated rape trial. Exposure to both types of violent stimuli produced desensitization and ratings of the stimuli as less degrading to women. Women exposed to the mildly sexually explicit, graphically violent stimuli were less sensitive toward the victim in the rape trial than were other film subjects. However, no differences were obtained between the film groups and the no-exposure control group on women's views of themselves

Advertising · Desensitization (medicine · Harm · Injury prevention · Mass media · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Perception · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Clinical Psychology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology