Critique Paper on Pornography and Aggression

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Critique: Does Pornography Lead to More Aggression toward Women or Victimization of Women Introduction In the current study on the effects of pornography and male aggressive behavior tendencies authors Yang and Youn successfully demonstrated males behavior tendencies after viewing clips of pornography. In a review of previous studies on exposure to pornography and male aggressiveness Yang and Youn discussed prior findings of each study, one of which found that there was no link between pornography exposure and aggression. The authors found that these previous studied were faulty due to their use of evoking increased arousal in participants prior to the watching of sexual video clips. Based on previous studies, the authors comprised two hypotheses: 1) exposing participants to pornography will lead to higher levels of aggression and 2) after exposure to violent pornography participants would choose more female than male faces as their target of aggression. Method The article discussed an experimental design consisting of 120 undergraduate college males. All males identified themselves as being heterosexual averaging at an age of twenty-one. Participants were selected using a convince sample, in which they were recruited from Introduction to Psychology classes. The experiment used two different independent variables: stimulus condition and target type. There were four different stimulus conditions, all ten minute video excerpts. Three of the videos were sexual and categorized as sadomasochistic, violent, and nonviolent. The fourth video was on wild life under the sea and was considered the neutral stimulus. The target types were pictures that had either a male or female face. The aggressive behavior, measured by the participant’s dart throwing choice, was the dependent variable. Individuals were randomly assigned to each condition and pictures of males, females,

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