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Experience of Violent Press: The Effects of Music With Chaotic Lyrics about Aggressive Feelings and thoughts
Craig A. Anderson and Nicholas M. Carnagey
Janie Eubanks
Grand rapids State School
Texas Section of Individual Services
Five experiments evaluated effects of tunes with violent lyrics about aggressive thoughts and inhospitable feelings. Tests 1, 3, 4 and 5 indicated that college students whom heard a violent track felt even more hostile than those who heard a similar although nonviolent song. Experiments 2–5 demonstrated the same increase in extreme thoughts. These effects replicated across tunes and song types (e. g., ordinary, humorous, nonhumorous). Experiments 3–5 also indicated that trait violence was favorably related to express hostility although did not modest the song lyric results. Discussion centers on the potential role of lyric content on hostility in immediate settings, relation to catharsis and other media assault domains, advancement aggressive persona, differences among long-term and short-term effects, and conceivable mitigating elements.
as by behaving in symbolically aggressive ways. Though the
aggression simulation hypothesis continues to be thoroughly discovered and debunked in several entertainment media websites, there has been comparatively little work with the effects of music with violent lyrics about aggression-related factors such as intense thoughts and feelings.
An individual told me when that there's a right and incorrect. Punishment was cure for individuals who dare cross the line. But it must not be true for jerk-offs just like you. And perhaps it's merely bullshit. I should play our god and blast you me.
—Tool, " Jerk-Off ” (1992)
Because evidenced by creation of the Parents' Music Resource Centre and the coverage of labeling music goods containing violent lyrics, so many people are concerned with potential deleterious effects of listening to songs with violent lyrics. A great accumulating human body of clinical research comprising 4 decades facilitates the hypothesis that contact with violent press is causally related to subsequent expression of aggression in both short- and long term time frames (e. g., Anderson & Bushman, 2002a; Berkowitz, 1993; Bushman & Anderson, 2001). The vast majority of this studies have focused on chaotic television and films (Huesmann & Miller, 1994). Recently, a small but relatively consistent analysis literature shows that initial exposure to chaotic video games triggers increases in aggression and aggression-related factors (Anderson & Bushman, 2001).
Nonetheless, presently there remains among the general populace and
various practitioners an extremely strong belief in the age-old catharsis hypothesis—the belief that experiencing and expressing hostile emotions and thoughts can decrease future aggressive
thoughts, feelings, and emotions (Bushman, 2002; Bushman,
Baumeister, & Stack, 1999). This ancient Greek idea, after popularized by Breuer and Freud (1893–1895/1955) and now generally labeled venting, states that aggressive impulses can be decreased by observing, reading, or singing regarding anger and aggression as well
Media Differences
There are numerous variations between observing violent tv set, playing chaotic video games, and listening to well-known music. Is the lack of a component to audio-only music. An additional is that intense lyrical content of popular music is normally discernible only to the most attentive of listeners, whereas videobased media (including music videos) make their violent content abundantly and graphically crystal clear. Some rock music songs have this sort of garbled words of the tune that they have bring debates about what the lyrics are (e. g., " Louie, Louie”; " Inna-Godda-Da-Vida”; find Marsh, 1993). A third difference concerns focus. A large proportion of period spent listening to...
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