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IN YOUR FACE, a 60-minute blogtalkradio series. Host Christian Peschken (53), in radio and film and TV for 30 years, former member of the Producer's Guild of America PGA, and chairman of the PGA's Social Awareness Committee in the late 90's, is today a compassionate advocate against violence in film & on TV, and an advocate of content regulation (such as the Hays Code, in use from 1935 to 1965), along with co-host Tom Cabeen (58), a seasoned marketing executive, expose and analyze the increasing violence in film, TV, radio and music, and the devastating effect it is having on our society (children and families in particular). The four guests are: DR. RAY GUARENDI, a father of 10 (Yes, 10 children... ages 9 through 21). Ray is an accomplished clinical psychologist, a recognized expert in the field, an author, public speaker and national radio host. His radio shows, "On Call with Dr. Ray and Friends" and "The Doctor Is In", can be heard weekdays on “Ave Maria Radio”, on EWTN Radio and on Relevant Radio.com. You can also listen live online or on Sirius satellite radio, channel 160. PROF. L. ROWELL HUESMANN, Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology and Director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Professor Huesmann is the lead author of a 15-year longitudinal study entitled CHILDHOOD EXPOSURE TO MEDIA VIOLENCE PREDICTS YOUNG ADULT AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR. DOUG BARRY is a media pro, an international speaker, co-host of the EWTN TV show "Live on the Rock". MATTHIAS HUES, body builder, actor, star of many martial art movies, including "I come in Peace" (with Dolph Lundgren) IN YOUR FACE is a pre-recorded Peschken Media Production.
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Date / Time: 1/8/2009 4:30 AM UTC
Category: Movies
In Your Face show #1 .. hosted by Christian Peschken & Tom Cabeen.. guests Dr. Rowell Huesmann, Dr. Ray Guarendi, Matthias Hues, Doug Barry ... about Violence in the media and its impact on children, families, society... "I am a strong advocate for the re establishment of a Production Code (aka Hays Code) that was very effective working between 1934 and 1965.. this time is referred to as the golden era of Hollywood.. Good people made good movies! and Today ?" says Christian Peschken
Date / Time: 12/27/2008 5:21 PM UTC
Dear visitors,
This is my personal mission, since I decided to not be any longer a part of the so called mainstream Hollywood media industry. The subject in our show IN YOUR FACE is always VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA AND THE (DEVASTATING) IMPACT... The impact changes society (it did already)! In our first show we reference a study by Prof. Rowell Huesmann. I encourage you , particularly as parents, to read this study's findings.
IN YOUR FACE , edition #1, starts Wednesday December 31, 2008, with guests Professor Rowell Huesmann (author of the study), Dr. Ray Guarendi (father of 10, Family Councelor, Psychologist), http://www.drray.com Doug Barry (TV host on EWTN, speaker, father, http://www.radixguys.com Actor, bodybuilder, martial artist Matthias Hues ("I come in Peace") http://www.matthiashues.com
CHILDHOOD EXPOSURE TO MEDIA VIOLENCE PREDICTS YOUNG ADULT AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, ACCORDING TO A NEW 15-YEAR STUDY
Children who Identify with Aggressive TV Characters and Perceive the Violence to be Realistic are Most at Risk for Later Aggression
WASHINGTON - Children's viewing of violent TV shows, their identification with aggressive same-sex TV characters, and their perceptions that TV violence is realistic are all linked to later aggression as young adults, for both males and females. That is the conclusion of a 15-year longitudinal study of 329 youth published in the March issue of Developmental Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA). These findings hold true for any child from any family, regardless of the child's initial aggression levels, their intellectual capabilities, their social status as measured by their parents' education or occupation, their parents' aggressiveness, or the mother's and father's parenting style.
Psychologists L. Rowell Huesmann, Ph.D., Jessica Moise-Titus, Ph.D., Cheryl-Lynn Podolski, M.A., and Leonard D. Eron, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan undertook the study as a follow-up of a 1977 longitudinal study of 557 children, ages 6 - 10, growing up in the Chicago area. In that study, children identified which violent TV shows they watched most, whether they identified with the aggressive characters and whether they thought the violent situations were realistic. Some examples of shows rated as very violent were Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man and Roadrunner cartoons. The current study re-surveyed 329 of the original boys and girls, now in their early 20s. The participants asked about their favorite TV programs as adults and about their aggressive behaviors. The participants' spouses or friends were also interviewed and were asked to rate the participant's frequency of engaging in aggressive behavior. The researchers also obtained data on the participants from state archives, which included criminal conviction records and moving traffic violations.
Results show that men who were high TV-violence viewers as children were significantly more likely to have pushed, grabbed or shoved their spouses, to have responded to an insult by shoving a person, to have been convicted of a crime and to have committed a moving traffic violation. Such men, for example, had been convicted of crimes at over three times the rate of other men.
Women who were high TV-violence viewers as children were more likely to have thrown something at their spouses, to have responded to someone who made them mad by shoving, punching, beating or choking the person, to have committed some type of criminal act, and to have committed a moving traffic violation. Such women, for example, reported having punched, beaten or choked another adult at over four times the rate of other women.
Might these results simply be an indication that more aggressive children like to watch violent TV shows? "It is more plausible that exposure to TV violence increases aggression than that aggression increases TV-violence viewing," said Dr. Huesmann. "For both boys and girls, habitual early exposure to TV violence is predictive of more aggression by them later in life independent of their own initial childhood aggression. Also, the study suggests that being aggressive in early childhood has no effect on increasing males' exposure to media violence as adults and only a small effect for females."
Violent films and programs that probably have the most deleterious effects on children are not always the ones that adults and critics believe are the most violent, the authors point out. "Violent scenes that children are most likely to model their behavior after are ones in which they identify with the perpetrator of the violence, the perpetrator is rewarded for the violence and in which children perceive the scene as telling about life like it really is," according to the researchers. "Thus, a violent act by someone like Dirty Harry that results in a criminal being eliminated and brings glory to Harry is of more concern than a bloodier murder by a despicable criminal who is brought to justice."
The study suggests a number of steps parents and society can take to prevent or reduce this effect. Research has shown that parental co-viewing of and commenting on the programs seems to reduce the effects of TV violence on children, probably because it reduces the child's identification with the person committing the violent act, reduces the child's perception that the violence is real and reduces the likelihood that the child will act out the violent act in fantasy or play immediately after seeing it on TV.
V-chip technology, which gives parents a way to control what the TV will allow to be broadcast in the home, is a step in the right direction, according to the authors, "but only if a content-based rating system is used that would actually allow parents to make judgements on the basis of violent content instead of the age guideline rating system used for many programs."
Article: "Longitudinal Relations Between Children's Exposure to TV Violence and Their Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: 1977 - 1992," L. Rowell Huesmann, Jessica Moise-Titus, Cheryl-Lynn Podolski, and Leonard D. Eron of the University of Michigan; Developmental Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 2.
Full text of the article is available from the APA Public Affairs Office or at http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/dev392201.pdf
Reporters: Lead author L. Rowell Huesmann, Ph.D.