Psychological impact of mass violence depends on affective tone of media content.

Exposure to media coverage of mass violence has been shown to predict poorer mental health symptomology. However, it is unknown whether such media coverage can have ubiquitous effects on average community members, extending to biological and perceptual processes that underlie everyday decision makin...

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Main Authors: Jolie Baumann Wormwood, Yu-Ru Lin, Spencer K Lynn, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen S Quigley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213891