Reactions of Juvenile Delinquents to " Justified " and " Less Justified " Movie Violence

fashion by the experimenter’s confederate. A story summary given to the subjects depicted the defeated movie character as either a callous exploiter of other persons or as a more sympathetic individual. Immediately after the film the insulted delinquents shown the exploiter being beaten administered stronger electric shocks to the confederate than a no-movie control group and somewhat more than other provoked subjects seeing the sympathetic character being hurt. Like the university students, the delinquents had apparently regarded the exploiter’s beating