Do talk shows cultivate adolescents' views of the world? A prolonged-exposure experiment

Rößler, Patrick

doi:10.1093/joc/51.1.143

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“…Given the popularity of television talk shows and criticism of their content, researchers have sought to understand possible negative effects associated with exposure to these shows (e.g., Davis & Mares, 1998;Rossler & Brosius, 2001). Uses and gratifications research has shown that a host of viewer characteristics influence these potential effects (A. M. Rubin, 2002).…”

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Viewer Aggression and Attraction to Television Talk Shows

Rubin¹,

Haridakis²,

Eyal³

2003

Media Psychology

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Guided by the uses and gratifications perspective, we examined how dispositional factors-aggression, anger, attitudes toward women, and communication anxiety and reward-and television-viewing factors-motivation, attitudes, topics, emotions, and parasocial interaction-explained attraction to different TV talk shows.We considered how these dispositional and viewing factors discriminated among different talk show preferences and different levels of aggression. Compared with The Oprah Winfrey Show viewers, Jerry Springer viewers thought shows were less realistic; enjoyed watching voyeuristic topics and guests' being angry, embarrassed, shocked, and hurt; watched to be entertained and excited rather than to be informed; and developed fewer parasocial relationships. Compared with persons with low levels of aggression, those with high levels of aggression were angry; had negative attitudes toward women; enjoyed watching guests' being embarrassed, angry, shocked, and hurt; thought others did not value their interpersonal interactions; and watched talk shows more often, especially to interact with others. We discuss the implications of these findings.

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Viewer Aggression and Attraction to Television Talk Shows

Rubin¹,

Haridakis²,

Eyal³

2003

Media Psychology

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“…Less complex from an organizational point of view, although often less coherent, is a number of separate studies covering the same subject area but using different methods. This has been done, for example, in the case of cultivation effects of talk shows by Davis and Mares (1998), in a cross-sectional survey, and by Rössler and Brosius (2001a) in a sequential experiment. Here, the interaction of analyses of content, surveys, in-depth interviews and even various forms of experiment provides a well-rounded picture of the possible cultivation effects of television.…”

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“…The findings suggest that television viewing is a stronger predictor of perceived reality than vice versa. Even this does not allow a definitive causal interpretation (see Rössler and Brosius, 2001a). Although the relationships here are amenable to more precise determination and interpretation, it is nevertheless the case that attitudes, estimates and reception data are collected at the same time, so that extraneous intervening variables, whose influence cannot be properly assessed, could underlie the asymmetry.…”

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“…Important among these is the sequential experiment, also known in the literature as the 'longitudinal exposure experiment' (see Bryant and Zillmann, 1981), 'prolonged exposure experiment' (Zillmann, 1989;Rössler and Brosius, 2001a), 'massive exposure experiment' (Bryant and Zillmann, 1981), or 'Intensivexperiment' (Rössler and Brosius, 2001b). Participants are repeatedly exposed to media messages over a long time period under controlled conditions similar to those in laboratory experiments, and a distinction is made between experimental and control groups.…”

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“…An example is provided by the study by Rössler and Brosius (2001a). School-children were shown edited material from German daytime talk-shows.…”

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The problem of causality in cultivation research

Rossmann¹,

Brosius²

2004

Communications

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Cultivation Effects of a Newspaper on Reality Estimates and Explicit and Implicit Attitudes

Arendt

2010

Journal of Media Psychology

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This paper explores the cultivation effect of a newspaper on its readers’ reality estimates and attitudes. Additionally, the study tries to advance cultivation research by examining implicit attitudes (i.e., automatic affective reactions toward an object). A content analysis of four months of news coverage in one particular newspaper showed that foreigners were overrepresented as offenders and that the newspaper had a negative view of the EU. According to cultivation theory, it is assumed that the more people read a newspaper, the more their reality estimates and attitudes correspond to the most recurrent, stable, and overarching patterns of the newspaper’s content. To test this hypothesis, a total of 453 students participated in a study that used a cross-lagged panel design with two waves and a time-lag of two months. Consistent with the cultivation hypothesis, those who spent more time reading the newspaper were more likely to overestimate the frequency of foreigners as offenders (i.e., first-order cultivation) and had more negative self-reported attitudes toward the EU (i.e., second-order cultivation). Additionally, those who read more of the newspaper showed more negative implicit attitudes toward the EU (i.e., implicit cultivation). The data show evidence of a significant causal influence of newspaper exposure on implicit attitudes, and a marginally significant causal effect on the overestimation of foreigners as offenders and on explicit attitudes toward the EU. The consideration of implicit attitudes as an additional dependent variable could advance cultivation theory and research.

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Do talk shows cultivate adolescents' views of the world? A prolonged-exposure experiment

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

Viewer Aggression and Attraction to Television Talk Shows

Viewer Aggression and Attraction to Television Talk Shows

The problem of causality in cultivation research

Cultivation Effects of a Newspaper on Reality Estimates and Explicit and Implicit Attitudes

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