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You described two different things: a psychological effect first, and then a market. The elephant example isn't mere-exposure. Also, I'm not an expert on this
by hahajk 2y ago
You described two different things: a psychological effect first, and then a market. The elephant example isn't mere-exposure.
Also, I'm not an expert on this but do we see more sensless killing by kids playing violent video games? This is usually the counter example to the exposure argument and I haven't seen it properly argued against.
- roenxi 2y agoIn the US there's also been an interesting rise in sexlessness and male virginity recently [0] which is a fun one to compare with exposure to pornography. There is evidence that real-world conditions have a lot more to do with real-world action than pictures on the internet. [0] https://ifstudies.org/in-the-news/young-adult-sexlessness-skyrocketed-in-the-last-decade-while-male-virginity-doubled-study https://ifstudies.org/in-the-news/young-adult-sexlessness-sk...