Effect of Violent in Film on Selective Attention toward Violence
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The purpose of the experiment was to examine effect of violent in film on selective attention toward violence, measured by a reaction time task. The participants were divided into 2 groups: watching either violent or non-violent film. Then they were exposed to violent and non-violent images for a brief period, followed by a dot. The task was to press a button to identify the location of a dot whether appeared after either a violent or a non-violent image. The reaction time was recorded by E-prime program (version 2.0), then analyzed by mixed factorial ANOVA (2x2). The finding revealed that the violent-film group responded to the dot appeared after the violent image faster than one after non-violent image at significant level 0.05. This implied the effect of violent film on a selective attention, which is explained by priming effect and mental model.
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