Personality Traits, Television Viewing, and the Cultivation Effect

The Mainstreaming of Verbally Aggressive Online Political Behaviors

“…Research has examined how specific personality traits (e.g., trait anxiety, sensation seeking, and psychoticism) moderated the cultivation effects of television use on perceptions of violence. 28 This study showed that individuals who scored lower on trait anxiety and psychoticism were more likely to view society as violent as television use increased. 28 The research of Nabi and Riddle suggests that greater use of television led those with high and low levels of trait anxiety to move toward a similar point on their estimates of violence in society.…”

“…28 This study showed that individuals who scored lower on trait anxiety and psychoticism were more likely to view society as violent as television use increased. 28 The research of Nabi and Riddle suggests that greater use of television led those with high and low levels of trait anxiety to move toward a similar point on their estimates of violence in society. 28 As such, individual traits may moderate the main effect of uncivil media attention.…”

“…28 The research of Nabi and Riddle suggests that greater use of television led those with high and low levels of trait anxiety to move toward a similar point on their estimates of violence in society. 28 As such, individual traits may moderate the main effect of uncivil media attention. Trait verbal aggression could serve as a potentially important moderating variable between uncivil media attention and measures of aggression.…”

The Influence of Message and Audience Characteristics on TV News Grazing Behavior

“…SS tendencies have made a strong showing in media research over the past 20 years, with particular focus on action-packed or violent content (Hoffner & Levine, 2005;Krcmar & Greene, 1999;Nabi & Riddle, 2008), health risk messages (Donohew et al, 1994;Lang, Chung et al, 2005;Palmgreen & Donohew, 2010), and, recently, social media (Haridakis & Hanson, 2009). Given the industry emphasis on-as well as public and scholarly concerns about-sensationalized television news, the paucity of academic inquiry into SS as a mediator in news consumption is striking.…”

Crime Scene Investigation: The Chief Inspectors’ Display Rules

“…Images shown on TV can aid to perpetuate traditional, conservative (gender) role attitudes as well as set new norms for appropriate behavior (e.g., Calvert and Huston 1987;Rivadeneyra and Lebo 2008), particularly, favorite programs may have a strong impact (Calvert et al 2003). Regarding the significant role of TV in socialization, which means, that television has cultivation effects (e.g., Nabi and Riddle 2008;Shanahan and Morgan 1999), gender-related images and content of TV programs have to be explored. If we are interested in the socialization of gender and in the development of gender-related stereotypes, it has to be asked if and how the staging of the genders in popular television programs is changing over time.…”