A study which finds that what you watch influences how you think
It’s called media priming — the idea that the things we watch or listen to or read influence our emotions and our behavior, perhaps more than we realize. This particular study may be the first to use fictional characters in a narrative to show an effect on people’s cognitive performance, says lead author Markus Appel, a psychologist at Austria’s University of Linz.
Useful research for the times when someone tells you not to get so worked up over a tv show.
hm!
Reblogged from Feminist Disney
