1. Violence in Television and Magazines
Studies have given attention to the theories regarding violent, emotional, and unpleasant stories. A group of researchers found that college students" recall of a commercial was even lower after watching an unpleasant and violent news program then students who had watched a regular news program. The news story that was unpleasant was about a suicide. ... The low recall created in the study was due to the fact that children transfer their feeling of anger in the violent programs to dislike of the product; this creates a low advertisement recall. ...
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