Mass Media Effects on Youth Sexual Behavior Assessing the Claim for Causality

By Paul J. Wright. 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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Pornography and the Sexual Socialization of Children: Current Knowledge and a Theoretical Future (2014, background): “I recently wrote a theoretical integration paper on children and mainstream media sexual socialization for Communication Yearbook that outlined an acquisition, activation, application model (3AM) of sexual media socialization (Wright, 2011; see also Wright, 2012, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c, in press; Wrigh”
A Meta-Analysis of Pornography Consumption and Actual Acts of Sexual Aggression in General Population Studies (2016, positive): “Pornographic scripts may become normalized with repeated exposures, however, decreasing negative reactions and increasing the likelihood of script application (Wright, 2011; Zillmann & Bryant, 1982, 1986).”
Pornography and Sexist Attitudes Among Heterosexuals (2013, background): “…literature on affective engagement (Clore & Schnall, 2005; Ward, 2002) and priming effects (Hansen & Krygowski, 1994; Roskos-Ewoldson et al., 2009; Wright, 2011) that affective activation (herein sexual arousal) may serve as an important mediator of signiﬁcant exposure-attitudinal relationships…”
The Relationship Between Online Pornography and the Sexual Objectification of Women: The Attenuating Role of Porn Literacy Education (2017, background): “In addition, the Acquisition, Activation, or Application model (3AM; Wright, 2011) outlines that whether people acquire, activate, or apply a script after media exposure depends on many factors including the amount of critical processing as well as the functional value and plausibility attributed to”
Sexual Scripts and the Sexual Behavior of Men and Women Who Use Pornography (2016, methodology): “…graphic illustrations of sexual encounters (Dines, Jensen, & Russo, 1998) and thus provide a ‘‘guide [for] a complete sequence of sexual behavior’’ (Wright, 2011, p. 358), it is likely that heavy pornography users will apply scripts that they learned from pornography in their real-life sexual…”
Internet pornography use and sexual motivation: a systematic review and integration (2019, background): “…from communication, media effects, observational learning, and information processing into a sexual script Acquisition, Activation, Application model (3AM) of sexual media socialization (Wright, 2011, 2014; Wright & Bae, 2016; Wright & Donnerstein, 2014; Wright, Malamuth, & Donnerstein, 2012).”
Introducing the Social Media Literacy (SMILE) model with the case of the positivity bias on social media (2020, background): “learning theory (Bandura, 2001), script theory (Wright, 2011), and media literacy theory”