Mean World Syndrome

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Mean World Syndrome is a phenomenon whereby the violence-related content of mass media convinces viewers that the world is more dangerous than it actually is, and prompts a desire for more protection than is warranted by any actual threat.^[1] Mean World Syndrome is one of the main effects of Cultivation theory.

[edit] See also

• Cultivation theory
• Missing white woman syndrome

[edit] References

1. ^ Gerbner, G., Gross, L., Morgan, M., Signorielli, N., & Shanahan, J. (2002). Growing up with television: Cultivation processes. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (2nd ed., pp. 43-67). Mahwah, N J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

[edit] External links

• Gerbner: "Reclaiming Our Cultural Mythology: Television's global marketing strategy creates a damaging and alienated window on the world."
• Daniel Chandler's Cultivation Theory
• "quintessential polls validating this theory".