News tagged with violent movies
FTC: Children still marketed violent content
(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Nuclear fusion is a virtually inexhaustible source of energy, and for decades now scientists have been working on exploiting it. A process that continues to present difficulties in laboratories on Earth has ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Profanity in TV and video games linked to teen aggression
While it's been long established that watching violent scenes increases aggression levels, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics suggests that profanity in the media may have a similar effect. Pediatrics is the to ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Taxpayer film subsidies promote youth smoking
State governments, including California as well as others in Canada and the United Kingdom, pour hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into major motion pictures that depict smoking -- leading to thousands of new teen ...
Aug 23, 2011 |
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How media can encourage our better side
(Medical Xpress) -- Violent media -- films, TV, videogames -- can encourage aggression, and lots of research says so. But psychologists haven't spent as much time looking at the ways media with more socially positive content ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Study: 'Superwomen' in movies affect real women
An Angelina Jolie character who crushes a robot in “Tomb Raider” is perceived by young women as a better role model than a mouthy Kathy Bates character who carries a gun in “Primary Colors,” a UC Davis ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Phone apps let users mock the law, but authorities aren't laughing
Want to fool merchants with a fake ID? Hack someone's text messages? Or how about tracking where your co-workers are, without their knowing it? There's an app for that.
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Next gen video games let players control the story
Menacing alien machines descend on Earth, and amid all-out war, a soldier searches a building to find a frightened boy hiding in a vent.
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Can't ban violent video sales to kids, court says
(AP) -- States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people's First Amendment rights and leaving ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Parents prefer media content ratings system to age-based ratings in new national study
Although parents appreciate having media ratings systems to help protect their kids from questionable content in movies, video games and television, the current age-based system doesn't meet their needs, according to a new ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Interest in shock treatment is growing despite decades-old controversy
Recently, actress and writer Carrie Fisher told Oprah Winfrey that she receives electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) regularly to treat depression caused by her bipolar disorder. Taken aback, Winfrey asked, "They still do that?"
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 02, 2011 |
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