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Research linking violent entertainment to aggression retracted after scrutiny
Feb. 16, 2021 , 1:00 PM
As Samuel West combed through a paper that found a link between watching cartoon violence and aggression in children, he noticed something odd about the study participants. There were more than 3000 an unusually large number and they were all 10 years old. “It was just too perfect,” says West, a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Aggressive Behavior and led by psychologist Qian Zhang of Southwest University of Chongqing, to his meta-analysis after a reviewer asked him to cast a wider net. West didn’t feel his vague misgivings could justify excluding it from the study pool. But after
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IMAGE: When community leaders engage teenage boys in programming designed to either teach healthy masculinity or job readiness skills, reports of sexual violence among the boys went down. view more
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22, 2020 - Through small, neighborhood classes, researchers at UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Promundo-US significantly reduced sexual violence among teenage boys living in areas of concentrated disadvantage.
The study, published today in
JAMA, is the culmination of a large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical trial spanning 20 racially segregated neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area to evaluate two violence prevention programs. The proportion of youth reporting the use of sexual or partner violence in their relationships decreased in both groups by about 12 percentage points.
last september, the 18-year-old rutgers university freshman killed himself after a sexual encounter with another man was broadcast online. tyler jumped off new york s george washington bridge after he posted a message on his facebook page that said jumping off the g.w. bridge. sorry. tyler s roommate is accused of secretly setting up a camera in the room and streaming the video online. today, he was indicted on 15 counts, including invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and witness tampering. the case exposed bullying problems across america and led to new anti-bullying efforts. joining us this evening to talk about all this is sunny hostin, a legal contributor for in session for trutv. also, dr. dorothy espelage, a professor at the university of illinois, who has implemented bullying prevention programs many more than two dozen schools. nice to see both of you. doctor, you re not surprised
about all this is sunny hostin, a legal contributor for in session for trutv. also, dr. dorothy espelage, a professor at the university of illinois, who has implemented bullying prevention programs many more than two dozen schools. nice to see both of you. doctor, you re not surprised that this is a hate crime among those 15 counts. why not? because increasingly what we ll finding in the last 20 years of research that we ve done around bullying is increasingly middle school and high school kids are reporting they re being tormented and teased through homophobic epitaphs. so increasingly as kids are going through middle school and high school and coming to college, they re holding kind of homophobic attitudes because this attitude is so prevalent within middle school and high school. to add to that, we re doing very little in our bullying prevention efforts to address that content that is homophobic