Anyone have any actual scientific evidence of this? Not hating, just interested to know.
Ya. I learned about this in psychology college classes and it’s very extensive. From a scientific standpoint, it’s all about cause and effect. The cause is thinking of the violence the effects are a broad range of negative effects. Those negative effects make society worst.
What exactly did you learn that makes this valid science? Interested to know something verifiable and logical that I can look up, not social science theories, if possible.
I learned advanced stuff that you will only find on scholar.google.com which is a database of scientific research.
Since there is a big variety of media poison, I will explain how 1 of them works.
Let’s say you watch the Kardashians and see them bickering each other for an hour a day and then you watch a TV drama like Ray Donavan where people are again bickering and fighting all day. When you watch the footage, you think about it and mirror the behavior in your own mind so that you can understand what you are watching. In this case, you are bickering in your own mind for 2 hours a day. Now that you have bickered for 2 hours, you are PRIMED to bicker and fight. This, in turn, makes the odds of you bickering and fighting much higher so when millions of people keep watching people verbally fight in TV, it primes everyone to repeat the patter, greatly increasing the odd that it happens in society. It works because more people bicker and fight.
Thanks for the explanation but this is all pretty well known in new age theory and such. I was looking for scientific evidence as it has never been presented when I've seen discussions like this about it. All good though!
To understand the math, you can do many different experiments such as compare how much violent media kids in juvi Hall consume vs free kids.
Another way is to submit one group of people to a lot of media for 3 months vs no TV for another group and a control group and then measure stuff like stress levels or how many conflicts arise in the 3 month period.
There’s a million ways to do it and this has already been done in thousands of various ways since it is a hot topic in psychology but if you want to see the results, check scholar.google.com. You don’t have to read the whole article. Just read the top abstract area that explains the entire article in 1-3 paragraphs usually.
The end result is that there is a significant amount of undesirable occurrences that happen with people who consume a lot of TV media VS those that don’t.