Media Violence and Antisocial Behavior
An Overview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10219983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Rowell Huesmann (0000-0002-3653-5272, University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author), Neil M Malamuth (0000-0002-4742-3487, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1986.tb00239.x |
| OpenAlex | W2113801963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 3 |
Do media portrayals of interpersonal violence engender aggression among the observers? This question has been the focus of social scientific inquiry for over a quarter of a century. The initial research efforts of numerous investigators led to the surgeon general's research program on television and social behavior in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The surgeon general's conclusion that “television violence, indeed, does have an adverse effect on certain members of our society” (Steinfeld, 1972) stimulated a torrent of research, congressional hearings, and expressions of public concern. The late 1970s and early 1980s also saw the emergence of cable television and the video cassette as major media forces. Accordingly, many teenagers and even preadolescents became frequent viewers of scenes that graphically couple sex and violence. Not surprisingly, a new research focus developed on the effects of such media stimuli
Aggression · Criminology · Focus (optics · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal violence · Mass media · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin · Suicide prevention · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Media Influence and Health · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Prevention as cumulative protection
Violence exposure in real‐life, video games, television, movies, and the internet
Video Game Violence and Confederate Gender
The afterlife of fictional media violence. A genetic phenomenology of emotions following Husserl and Freud
The Effects of Media Violence on Attitudes, Emotions, and Cognitions
Role of cognitive-emotional mediators and individual differences in the effects of media violence on aggression
Violent Trends in Hip-Hop Entertainment Journalism
The First 50 Years
The influence of aggressive and neutral cartoons and toys on the behaviour of preschool children
Teorías sobre los efectos de la violencia en los medios
Women's Reactions to Sexually Aggressive Mass Media Depictions
Introductory Comments
Support for religio‐political aggression among teenaged boys in Gaza
Why do aggressive movies make people aggressive? an attempt to explain short-term effects of the depiction of violence on the observer
At the movies with Buss and Durkee
Issues Bearing on the Legal Regulation of Violent and Sexually Violent Media
Sexual Violence in the Media
The Immediate Effects of Media Violence on Behavior
Research on Enemy Images
Situational Influences on Reactions to Observed Violence
Developing Critical Viewing Skills and Media Literacy in Children
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2022 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |