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Research indicates that viewing pornography distorts one's of how women actually respond to sexual . Controlled experiments reveal that exposure to violent pornography increases men's toward women. Rather than advocate censorship, however, many psychologists favor " training."
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Albert Bandura's Bobo doll experiments indicated that viewing aggressive behavior both lowered and taught ways to . The studies suggest that watching aggressive on television may increase aggression. Research also indicates, however, that modeling behavior teaches children positive lessons in behavior.
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Correlational studies indicate that the violent the content of the child's TV viewing, the aggressive the child. also indicate that viewing violence causes an increase in aggressive behavior.
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The hypothesis suggests that watching violent drama enables people to release their pent-up hostilities. In contrast, televised violence actually seems to viewers to cruelty and to distort their of reality.
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Media portrayals of violence may produce aggression by raising viewers' , by lowering their , and by evoking .
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video games may stimulate arousal and thinking, feelings, and behavior, as well as decreasing prosocial behaviors.







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