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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:30 pm
by GORDON
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/cumc-tiy120507.php
NEW YORK – Violence is a frequent occurrence in television shows and movies, but can watching it make you behave differently?
Although research has shown some correlation between exposure to media violence and real-life violent behavior, there has been little direct neuroscientific support for this theory until now.
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center’s Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Research Center have shown that watching violent programs can cause parts of your brain that suppress aggressive behaviors to become less active.
Thoughts?
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:05 pm
by Malcolm
The brain reacts to many things. I'm not exactly surprised.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:50 pm
by TheCatt
Yeah, after getting drunk and going to strip clubs with friends, the next morning I'd wonder why the attractive women at work weren't just getting naked.
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:27 pm
by DoctorChaos
TheCatt wrote:Yeah, after getting drunk and going to strip clubs with friends, the next morning I'd wonder why the attractive women at work weren't just getting naked.
You weren't tipping enough.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:06 pm
by Leisher
Eh. This is a non-story. Like Catt is saying, it's like pointing out that a person gets horny while watching others have sex. Picture the "others" as attractive since movies do make the violence pretty cool and the motivations behind it are usually just (for the good guys).
Still, the key fact they're forgetting is that everyone has a moral compass. Just because you see a movie with a serial killer, doesn't mean you're going to become a serial killer, far from it.
They try to use "studies" like this to prove movies, video games, books, comics, music, D&D, etc. are bad influences.
The one variable that voids ALL of these studies is human nature. If everyone thought and acted the same all the time, they'd have a point. However, since that's not true, they're bullshit.
When this type of "science" accepts the fact that people are different maybe they'll be able to come up with something to get results that are worth a damn.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:51 pm
by TPRJones
That's actually a very good parallel. Implying that this study proves watching violence makes one violent is the same arguement as saying that watching porn makes one have orgies.
Of course, some people believe that's true.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:39 am
by DoctorChaos
Leisher wrote:If everyone thought and acted the same all the time, they'd have a point.
Then my plan to rule the world would be much easier. I'd just have a reality tv show during the writers' strike. The premise, everyone does what I tell them to do. MUWHAHAHAHA
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:53 am
by thibodeaux
DoctorChaos wrote:TheCatt wrote:Yeah, after getting drunk and going to strip clubs with friends, the next morning I'd wonder why the attractive women at work weren't just getting naked.
You weren't tipping enough.
Zing!