The 11 Myths of Media Violence

By W. Potter. 2002

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Public policy and the effects of media violence on children (2007, background): “These can be further broken down into short-term and long-term effects (for a detailed discussion, see Potter, 1999; 2003).”
Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (2007, background): “Nevertheless, the scientific debate about whether exposure to media violence causes increases in aggressive behavior is over (Anderson, Berkowitz, Donnerstein, Huesmann, Johnson, Linz, Malamuth, and Wartella, 2003; Gentile, 2003; Kirsh, 2006; Potter, 2003) and should have been over 30 years ago (Bus”
Cartoon violence and aggression in youth (2006, unknown): “As perceived similarity increases, the following are thought to occur: the amount of priming of aggression-related constructs increases; emotional arousal swells; observers expect to experience similar events in their lives (thereby enhancing modeling influences); and there is a greater chance of id”
Rating Offensive Words in Three Television Program Contexts (2010, background): “Being called profane and disparaging names could cause long-term selfconcept damage (Infante & Wigley, 1986; O’Connor, 2000; Potter, 2003) and exposure to verbal aggression—‘‘attacking the self-concept’’ of another person or his opinion with the intent of ‘‘hurting the person psychologically’’—may…”