@article{ref1,
title="Reducing the Aggression-Promoting Effect of Violent Cartoons By Increasing Children's Fictional Involvement with the Victim: A Study of Active Mediation",
journal="Journal of broadcasting and electronic media",
year="2000",
author="Nathanson, Amy I. and Cantor, Joanne",
volume="44",
number="1",
pages="125-125",
abstract="An experiment with 351 second through sixth graders was conducted to determine the effectiveness of an active mediation strategy: encouraging children to focus on the feelings of the victim of violence in a cartoon. Although boys who watched the cartoon without the mediation were more aggression-prone after viewing than a control group, boys who received the mediation did not show an increase in aggressive tendencies. Neither the cartoon nor the mediation affected girls' aggression-proneness.<p />",
language="",
issn="0883-8151",
doi="10.1207/s15506878jobem4401_9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4401_9"
}