Violent Imagery Leaves Viewers ‘Comfortably Numb’
Would you help a disabled woman pick up the crutches she dropped outside a cinema? Disturbing new research suggests it may depend upon which movie you just saw.
Evidence continues to mount that violent media imagery impacts the behavior of viewers…
In a just-published paper… Brad Bushman of the University of Michigan’s School for Social Research – concludes that media violence desensitizes viewers to the pain of others, making it less likely they will offer help to those in need.
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