{"id":709,"date":"2003-05-20T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:50","slug":"do-violent-songs-make-violent-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"do violent songs make violent kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eminem  may be more dangerous than you know. Songs  with violent lyrics increase violent thoughts and feelings, according  to a study published in this month&#8217;s issue of the <em>Journal of Personality  and Social Psychology.<\/em> The findings contradict the notion that  listening to angry music provides a positive, cathartic effect.  Researchers from Iowa State University and the Texas Department of Human  Services examined the effects of violent song lyrics from groups such  as Tool and Cypress Hill on over 500 college students. Those exposed  scored higher on aggression in psychological tests. For example, they  were more likely to interpret words that have ambiguous meanings, such  as animal and stick, as aggressive, and were also more likely to fill in  word fragments, such as h&#8211;t, to make an aggressive word such as &#8220;hit&#8221;  rather than a non-aggressive word such as &#8220;hat.&#8221; The researchers only  studied precursors to aggression, not aggressive behavior itself, and as  the study authors note, the hostile thought priming of violent songs  may last only a fairly short time: &#8220;Presumably, if the next song heard  is nonviolent . . . the short-term priming effects of violent lyrics  will dissipate.&#8221; They do suggest, however, that repeated exposure to  violent lyrics may contribute to a more aggressive personality.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 5\/20\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminem may be more dangerous than you know. Songs with violent lyrics increase violent thoughts and feelings, according to a study published in this month&#8217;s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The findings contradict the notion that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}