Showing papers by "L. Rowell Huesmann published in 2005"
TL;DR: Gender differences in the development of social cognition may help to explain gender differences in crime and violence as mentioned in this paper, and it is not necessarily suggested that deficiencies in cognitive capabilities cause crime, but rather that certain ways of processing social information and certain social cognitive memory structures help to protect the individual from personal, social, environmental, or situational pressures towards criminal behavior.
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TL;DR: A principle of “discrepancy-proportional peer-influence” for small group intervention is derived, and the implications of this for aggregating aggressive children in small group programs are discussed.
Abstract: Examined peer contagion in small group, selected prevention programming over one school year. Participants were boys and girls in grades 3 (46 groups, 285 students) and 6 (36 groups, 219 students) attending school in low-resource, inner city communities or moderate resource urban communities. Three-level hierarchical linear modeling (observations within individuals within groups) indicated that individual change in aggression over time related to the average aggression of others in the intervention group. The individual child was "pulled" toward peers' mean level of aggression; so the intervention appeared to reduce aggression for those high on aggression, and to make those low on aggression more aggressive. Effects appeared to be magnified in either direction when the child was more discrepant from his or her peers. From these results we derive a principle of "discrepancy-proportional peer-influence" for small group intervention, and discuss the implications of this for aggregating aggressive children in small group programs.
110 citations
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The authors showed that all major recent meta-analyses of media violence effects (reviewed in our 2003 article) show positive effect sizes for media violence on aggression and that the purpose of the examples we included was to illustrate the general findings of relevant meta-analysis, which included every study published, even the negative example Moeller offered.
Abstract: Moeller writes that we "failed to include or describe important studies that contradict their position," and gave one example. But the purpose of the examples we included was to illustrate the general findings of relevant meta-analyses, which included every study published, even the negative example Moeller offered. The fact is that all major recent meta-analyses of media violence effects (reviewed in our 2003 article) show positive effect sizes for media violence on aggression. To focus on the occasional null or negative example would have misrepresented the general findings.
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