<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd49e5b6-3b50-440f-afc4-0e58a71a008c/2B304A39-CA4C-43B8-A253-BB5648AB93CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Oct-meanness.aspx" href="http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Oct-meanness.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">byunews.byu.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Oct-meanness.aspx">‘Stealth’ form of film and TV violence stokes viewer aggression, BYU study shows</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Oct-meanness.aspx">A new Brigham Young University study finds that watching film characters behave rudely makes viewers just as aggressive as watching actors try to kill each other.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Oct-meanness.aspx"><P>Professor Sarah Coyne studies the portrayal of ‘relational aggression’ in media and says her research serves as a warning to parents about reality television’s steady diet of secrets, rumors and betrayal.</P><P>“Most people who watch mean behavior are not fine afterward, the same as with watching violence,” said Coyne, who teaches and researches in BYU’s School of Family Life. “Seeing this in film and on television may not turn people into violent offenders, but it certainly appears that afterward people are more likely to spread rumors and react aggressively.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2B304A39-CA4C-43B8-A253-BB5648AB93CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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