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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, many psychologists favor " training."
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Bandura's Bobo doll experiment indicated that viewing aggressive behavior both lowered and taught ways to . The study suggests that watching aggressive on television may increase aggression. In contrast, the hypothesis suggests that watching violent drama enables people to release their pent-up hostilities.
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Correlational studies indicate that the violent the content of the child's TV viewing, the aggressive the child. Experiments indicate that viewing violence produces an in aggressive behavior. It seems also 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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Research indicates that modeling behavior teaches children positive lessons in behavior.





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