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Peer reviewedCline, Victor B.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973
To find if children do become desensitized to violence, a test for a measurable physiological difference in emotional response to filmed violence was administered to children who are high exposure and low exposure television viewers. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conditioning, Desensitization, Physiology
Download full textCline, Victor B.; And Others – 1972
Children with histories of high and low exposure to television (and the violence therein) were exposed to a moderately violent film. Measures of autonomic response (skin conductance and blood volume pulse amplitude) were taken before and during their exposure to the violent film. Over both measures and in another replicated study, the high TV…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Psychology, Desensitization, Early Experience
