Real World Aggression Analysis

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Film or TV violence portrayals will always influence the habits of individuals in the real world. Psychological theorists indicate that the film portrayals affect the mental state of the audience, who imitate the happenings in the movies. For instance, according to John Locke’s “Blank State’s theory,” humans behave according to the present happenings in their environments (Gregoriou & Papastephanou, 2013). He states that the environmental experiences are transcribed into a person’s mind to learn what he or she sees in the movies. It is also apparent that film portrayals may influence real world aggression due to the cognitive state of the audience’s mind in which they perceive the film’s happenings as the correct things to perform (Gregoriou

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