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Negative Effects Of The Payne Studies Of 1928

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The Payne studies of 1928 contributed a great deal to help secure censorship for all aspects of media. W. W Charles, the director of the Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State University and Reverend William Short, organizer of the Motion Picture Research Council brought together a team of people from various to facilitated the study (Spring, p. 331). The reason the studies took place is because of the negative effects it was having on children when sleeping so this began the study with different groups studies. The Payne studies also found other negative effects in types of movies shown to children in the interim such as intimacy, daydreaming, ideas being planted in the minds of children, grades falling, heightened emotions and misbehavior

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