Reducing the aggression-promoting effect of violent cartoons by increasing children's fictional involvement with the victim: A study of active mediation

被引:86
作者
Nathanson, AI [1 ]
Cantor, J
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[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Commun, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
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10.1207/s15506878jobem4401_9
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G2 [信息与知识传播];
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05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
An experiment with 351 second through sixth graders was conducted to determine the effectiveness of an active mediation strategy: encouraging children to focus on the feelings of the victim of violence in a cartoon. Although boys who watched the cartoon without the mediation were more aggression-prone after viewing than a control group, boys who received the mediation did not show an increase in aggressive tendencies. Neither the cartoon nor the mediation affected girls' aggression-proneness.
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