This article is pretty wells summed up in the title, “Media Influences on Attitudes and Perceptions Toward the Body Among Adult Men and Women”. The article starts by telling that women and men are both very influenced by the media when it comes to physical appearance. It says men overestimated their chest, waist and thighs and underestimated their hips, while women overestimated all parts of their body. The article then goes into a study of 60 men and 60 women to see what they said about the media’s affects and what the “perfect body” is. Men wanted the “v-shaped” body with a large chest and thin waste, just like the men seen on television. While the women want to be very thin, just like on television. This survey and article proves that both women and men are very influenced by the physical appearances seen on television.
McCabe, Marita, Kelly Butler, and Christina Watt. "Media Influences on Attitudes and Perceptions Toward the Body Among Adult Men and Women." Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research (2007): 101-118. Web. 13 Apr 2010.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121421108/HTMLSTART?onDenied=/journal/121421108/abstract&CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
This article is a collection of stories about how the media affects violence and antisocial behavior. In many of the stories young teens have convicted crimes and the crimes have been linked to watching violence on television or playing violent video games. It also talks about how the media shows a lot of violence, and seeing violence on the media and in the news may cause young adults to see violence as a way out or sometimes it may be the right thing to do. Unfortunately the media has always, and will always have an extremely large impact on how everyday citizens live their daily lives. These stories also include a survey of 93 teenagers at a high school, all coming from the same area, and growing up in similar conditions. They asked each one how much television they watch and how much time they spend on the internet. The results were that the students that spent more time watching and online were less social and more prone to violence.
Clemente, Miguel, Pablo Espinosa, and Miguelangel Vidal. "The Media and Violent Behavior in Young People: Effects of the Media on Antisocial Aggressive Behavior in a Spanish Sample." Journal of Applied social Psychology 38.10 (2008): 2395-2409. Web. 13 Apr 2010.
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