Percepciones y realidades de la violencia en la televisión
The article presents the interviewees perception of violence shown on television and its relation to violence see in the real world from a theoretic posing and the dicovery of available information on usage, communications means, and violence, from the multicentered research project ACTIVA held in eight metropolitan cities in Latin America and Spain. The results show that cities considered as less violent perceive more violence on television, and there is a general perception of more than a half of those interviewed that television show more violence than it actually happens in the real life. Descriptors: Television/Violence/Public/Empirical research
Cognitive processes and the persistence of aggressive behavior
Recent data from several longitudinal studies including one spanning 22 years suggest that aggression is quite stable over time and situation. Early measures of intellectual competence predicted concurrent and later aggression, but early aggression was independently a good predictor of reduced intellectual achievement as an adult. Over a shorter period of years cognitive rehearsal of aggressive behaviors predicted overt aggression, was predicted by overt aggression, and correlated with the child's TV viewing. In combination, these data suggest a circular process in which scripts for aggressive behavior are learned at an early age and become more firmly entrenched as the child develops, so that aggression becomes self-perpetuating in children with certain cognitive characteristics.
An Actor Prepares
Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.