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Trends of Violence in Movies over the Past Half Century

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  • Fotouhi, Babak

    (University of Maryland College Park)

  • Tohidi, Amir
  • Touserkani, Rouzbeh
  • Bushman, Brad J.

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This study analyzes trends of violence in movie dialogues over the past 50 years using a dataset of over 160,000 films. Results show that mentions of violent actions have an overall increasing trend. After controlling for genre, non-crime movies also exhibit such an increasing trend, across the cases of male characters, female characters, as well as all characters combined.

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  • Fotouhi, Babak & Tohidi, Amir & Touserkani, Rouzbeh & Bushman, Brad J., 2025. "Trends of Violence in Movies over the Past Half Century," OSF Preprints akuqn, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:akuqn
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/akuqn
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    1. Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio & Hugo Zarco, 2017. "Do movie contents influence box-office revenues?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(17), pages 1679-1688, April.
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