Lande R G
Outpatient Psychiatry Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20012.
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1993 Apr;44(4):347-51. doi: 10.1176/ps.44.4.347.
Some researchers and theorists are convinced that graphic scenes of violence on television and in movies are inextricably linked to human aggression. Others insist that a link has not been conclusively established. This paper summarizes scientific studies that have informed these two perspectives. Although many instances of children and adults imitating video violence have been documented, no court has imposed liability for harm allegedly resulting from a video program, an indication that considerable doubt still exists about the role of video violence in stimulating human aggression. The author suggests that a small group of vulnerable viewers are probably more impressionable and therefore more likely to suffer deleterious effects from violent programming. He proposes that research on video violence be narrowed to identifying and describing the vulnerable viewer.
一些研究人员和理论家坚信，电视和电影中的暴力画面与人类的攻击性有着千丝万缕的联系。另一些人则坚称，两者之间的联系尚未得到确凿证实。本文总结了为这两种观点提供依据的科学研究。尽管已有许多儿童和成人模仿视频暴力的事例被记录在案，但尚无法庭判定视频节目造成的伤害需承担责任，这表明人们对视频暴力在激发人类攻击性方面所起的作用仍存在相当大的疑问。作者认为，一小部分易受影响的观众可能更容易受影响，因此更有可能因暴力节目而受到有害影响。他提议将对视频暴力的研究范围缩小到识别和描述易受影响的观众。
