IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/jriskr/v16y2013i5p583-594.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Exposure to media with prosocial content reduces the propensity for reckless and risky driving

Author

Listed:
  • Tobias Greitemeyer

Abstract

Past research has predominantly focused on negative effects of media exposure. However, as pointed out by the General Learning Model (GLM), exposure to media may have positive consequences as well. Two studies tested the effects of exposure to media with prosocial (relative to neutral) content on participant's propensity for reckless and risky driving. Study 1 revealed that those participants who had played a prosocial video game were less prone to self-reported reckless and risky driving than those who had played a neutral video game. This effect was replicated in Study 2, employing a different type of media exposure (i.e. listening to music). Taken together, the present findings lend credence to GLM's assumption that the effects of media exposure depend to a great extent on the content of the media.

Suggested Citation

  • Tobias Greitemeyer, 2013. "Exposure to media with prosocial content reduces the propensity for reckless and risky driving," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(5), pages 583-594, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:16:y:2013:i:5:p:583-594
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2012.726248
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13669877.2012.726248
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13669877.2012.726248?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:16:y:2013:i:5:p:583-594. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RJRR20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.