Media Claims vs Empirical Facts PDF

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PSY-260: Introduction to Psychological Research and Ethics Topic 1: Media Claims versus Empirical Facts Kayle Conover 14 September 2020 Prof. Nielsen Instructions: 1. Complete the chart below by identifying five media claims and scientific facts that support and refutes your media claim statements. 2. Cite the scholarly, peer reviewed sources from which the scientific facts were obtained using in-text citations formatted according to APA. Include a full reference page at the end of your document following proper APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Media Claim

Scientific Fact to Support Claim

Scientific Fact to Oppose Claim

Example: Consuming too much social media can negatively impact our wellbeing.

Greater exposure to social media is linked to lower levels of self-esteem (Vogel, 2014).

For personal health, social media can provide patients with tools for empowerment and engagement with others. (Househ, Borycki, & Kushniruk, 2014).

Social media makes people lonelier.

The lack of physical human interaction and only seeing friends through social media increases loneliness (Marche, 2012).

Over half of the teens survey have made at least one new friend through social media (Lenhart et al., 2015).

Media violence exposure to Violence in the media children creates aggressive increases real life violence, therefore making is a and violent behavior. public health threat (Huesmann & Taylor, 2006). Research Methods in Psychology, 2e By Beth Morling

Media violence is maybe important as factors like neighborhood/home violence (Coker et al., 2015).

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Media raises body image issues, which can cause eating disorders.

The current media is powerful and increases levels of body dissatisfaction in both genders (Derenne & Beresin, 2006).

The media has grown into having more body positive content which has shown to give young women a positive mood (Cohen et al., 2019)

Social media has caused relationships to lose trust due to online infidelity.

Studies show that there have been significant negative impacts on relationships due to online infidelity (Schneider et al., 2012).

Social media helps relationships stay connected and improve during long-distance (Hertlein & Ancheta, 2014).

Social media has caused an Social media gives kids the chance to talk increase rate of problematically online, cyberbullying. talk to strangers, and engage in cyberbullying (Craig et al., 2020).

Privacy and management settings and the ability to report others has helped reduce cyberbullying (Madden et al., 2013).

References Craig, W., Boniel-Nissim, M., King, N., Walsh, S. D., Boer, M., Donnelly, P. D., Harel-Fisch, Y., Malinowska-Cieslik, M., Gaspar de Matos, M., Cosma, A., Van den Eijnden, R., Vieno, A., Elgar, F. J., Molcho, M., Bjereld, Y., & Pickett, W. (2020). Social media use and cyber-bullying: A cross-national analysis of young people in 42 countries. Journal of Adolescent Health. 66(6), S100-S108.

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Cohen, R., Fardouly, J., Newton-John, T., & Slater, A. (2019). # Bo Po on Instagram: An experimental investigation of the effects of viewing body positive content on young women’s mood and body image. New Media & Society, 21(7), 1546-1564. Coker, T. R., Elliot, M. N., Schwebel, D. C., Windle, M., Toomey, S. L., Tortolero, S. R., Hertz, M. F., Peskin, M. F., & Schuster, M. A. (2015). Media violence exposure and physical aggression in fifth-grade children. Academic pediatrics, 15(1), 82-88. Derenne, J. L., & Beresin, E. V. (2006). Body image, media, and eating disorders. Academic psychiatry, 30(3), 257-261. Hertlein, K. M., & Ancheta, K. (2014). Advantages and disadvantages of technology in relationships: Findings from an open-ended survey. Qualitative Report, 19(11). Househ, M., Borycki, E., & Kushniruk, A. (2014). Empowering patients through social media: The benefits and challenges. Health Informatics Journal, 20(1), 50–58. doi: 10.1177/1460458213476969 Huesmann, L. R., & Taylor, L. D. (2006). The role of media violence in violent behavior. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 27, 393-415. Lenhart, M., Smith, A., Anderson, M., Duggan, M., & Perrin, A. (2015). Teens, technology, & friendship (Vol 10). Washington, DC: Pew Research Center. Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Cortesi, S., Gasser, U., Duggan, M., Smith, A., & Beaton M. (2013). Teens, social media, and privacy. Pew Research Center, 21(1055), 2-86.

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Marche, S. (2012). Is Facebook making us lonely. The Atlantic, 2. Retrieved from https://popehs.typepad.com/files/marche_is-facebook-making-us-lonely_atlanticmonthly.pdf Schneider, J. P., Weiss, R., & Samenow, C. (2012). Is it really cheating? Understanding the emotional reactions and clinical treatment of spouses and partners affected by cybersex infidelity. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 19(1-2), 123-39. Vogel, E. A., Rose, J. P., Roberts, L. R., & Eckles, K. (2014). Social comparison, social media, and self-esteem. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 3(4), 206–222. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000047

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