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Aronson, Elliot, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, and Samuel R. Sommers. 2018. Social Psychology, global ed., 9th ed. London: Pearson Education. The usual assumption has been that watching violence makes people more aggressive, but aggressive people are also drawn to watching violence. Moreover, another entirely independent factor may be causing both. Some children are born with a mental or emotional predisposition toward violence; or learn it as toddlers from the way they are treated by abusive parents or siblings; or in other ways develop aggressiveness as a personality trait. In turn, this trait or predisposition manifests itself in both their aggressive behavior and their liking for watching violence or playing aggressive games (Bushman, 1995; Ferguson, 2013). In an experiment investigating the interaction between temperament and exposure to violence, children watched either a film depicting a great deal of police violence or an exciting but nonviolent film about bike racing. They then played a game of floor hockey. Watching the violent film did increase the number of aggressive acts the children committed during the hockey game- but primarily by those who had previously been rated as highly aggressive by their teachers. These kids hit others with their sticks, threw elbows, and yelled aggressive things at their opponents to a much greater extent than did either the kids rated as nonaggressive who had also watched the violent films or the kids rated as aggressive who had watched the nonviolent film (Josephson, 1987). Likewise, a few longitudinal studies have shown that exposure to violence in media or video games has the strongest relationship in children who are already predisposed to violence (Anderson & Dill, 2000). Thus, it may be that watching media violence merely server to give them permission to express their aggressive inclinations (Ferguson & Kilburn, 2009). The same conclusi

Can we start saying "a person's reality shapes how fiction affects them"? Everyone responds to the same media differently and it is not a universal experience. MANY things influence how a person reacts to & interprets media such as how they're raised, mental health, education, religion, & culture.🧵

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

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im gonna get yelled at extremely badly for this one but i am right.

Why am I so against generative AI in games?

Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

yes exactly, theres no reason to think that an apex predator species like us wouldnt have natural darkness and violent thoughts that need some sort of outlet just bc we’ve domesticated ourselves to the extent that we have. primal ruthlessness is still with us but just has little use in consumer life

i wish more people would accept that humans are naturally pretty fucked up and have fucked up thoughts and it's actually a good thing that we have a way to express that without hurting anyone. it doesn't say anything about actual intent. we're just playing around with our dark sides

please never forget that fictional characters are not real. pls do not forget that the entire reason they exist, their sole purpose, is to have feelings and desires projected onto them by living people. please do not scold others for the misguided empathy ur giving to a figment instead of a person

i made the mistake of scrolling down on some cute art and accidentally saw people arguing about what is right or wrong to say about a fictional character’s rights & choices. I got war flashbacks to 2013 tumblr

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Hey, wanna know who's even worse than Collective Shout and has been at this since 1960? 'Morality in Media!'

"We show how NCOSE adjusted their rhetoric to first link pornography to addiction and pedophilia and later to trafficking and exploitation"

Article: indigo.uic.edu/articles/jou...

"Wow that empty brain of yours is a heavy burden here let me carry that for you so you don't have to think or have even one uncomfortable thought. Time to pour out the sanitizer"

If the human brain was as stunted & incapable of processing information as censorship enforcers claim it is nobody would even be capable of having these discussions. It's so convenient for enforcers they're of the noble few exceptions whose minds have transcended giving them authority over others 🙄

"BUT A CHILD COULD SEE IT & THINK IT'S OKAY TO DO IN REAL LIFE!" Here's a wild idea, instead of enacting fascism & violating people's privacy with invasive laws what if kids were taught not everything they see, watch & read is real & something being depicted doesn't auto mean it's good to do! WOWEE!

If fiction or porn affected people as drastically as this fascists believed, society would be totally unlivable.

Most of this shit is people too uncomfortable and cowardly to have difficult conversations with kids.

Good thread!

Fiction alone is not enough to judge someone’s morality.

People who create wholesome stories might be a fricken child predator irl, meanwhile someone who creates fucked up stories might end up being the sweetest person ever.

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