 Today, teens are easily exposed to explicit content in movies  Parents allow their teens to watch inappropriate movies, such as R-rated  Sometimes parents do not know what children are watching, whether its on television or in movie theaters  Read the parental guide for movies on common sense media before watching a movie- Directors need to be more strict with ratings  Movies can shape a teens personality and their morals for how they grow up  Purpose of the paper- to find out if such movies with explicit content influences teens to try such actions seen in a movie Are movies the new thinking?

 Smoking  Alcohol Use  Language  Violence

 Smoking in Movies: Impact on Adolescent Smoking The Theory  Teens may smoke because they feel the need to imitate what the media has to offer  Their favorite actors and actresses are their role models The Study  First approach- Teens are asked who their favorite actors are and the actor’s smoking status- inaccurate  Second approach-Use a list of 50 movie titles that have smoking in them and see what movies the teens watch- how much exposure they have

 Teens that never smoked are 1.4 more times likely to try smoking in the next four years  It depends on how much movie smoking the actor they had chosen done, which made it a bit inaccurate  If teens that never smoked have little exposure to movie smoking, they are less likely to smoke  Girls would smoke from movies with their favorite stars and boys would smoke because of tobacco campaigns in movies  Solution- make anti-tobacco advertisements in movies and show long-term effects of smoking to stop teens  Teens are more likely to smoke in the future with smoking in movies they watch and if previews have smoking, it could affect teens  Make smoking in R-rated movies only

 Alcohol Use in Motion Pictures and Its Relation with Early-Onset Teen Drinking The Theory  Early drinking can result in long-term drinking, abuse, accidents, getting into fights  G-rated movies have alcohol use The Study  Survey of 4,655 teens to see how many tried drinking  Choose from a list of 50 movie titles that have alcohol use- how many they saw  Calculated the total on-screen drinking time in each movie

 92 percent of movies in the sample had drinking with a 2.5 minute alcohol use  23 percent of the teens tried alcohol  14.8 percent tried alcohol in a follow up meeting  Besides movies, other risk factors- parenting styles, school performance, experimenting  Varies depending on the exposure from one person to another  Exposed to alcohol early in their teen years=more likely to continue drinking throughout their life  If teens smoke, they are also likely to try drinking and drugs

 SWEARING IN THE CINEMA An analysis of profanity in US teen-oriented movies, 1980–2006 The Theory  More profanity is being heard by teens today so want to see if teen characters in movies influence this The Study  No rated R movies are looked at  Most popular PG and PG-13 movies- top box office  The profanity use of characters are documented  Dirty, sexual, and excretory words are divided into categories

 Teens are in more situations where bad language is used compared to when adults curse in teen movies  Teens that are males use the most profanity  Top results used in these movies are the mild category followed by the seven dirty words category  There is a slight decrease in the use of dirty and excretory words over the years  A decrease in the use of profanity in teen movies over the years  Teens may not be affected by the use of bad language in movies  But more aware of the sexual words that are out there  Supposed to be age-appropriate movies

 Exposure of US Adolescents to Extremely Violent Movies The Theory  See if aggressive thoughts and behaviors in teens are caused by movies The Study  A random digit-dial survey conducted  Only rated R movies- how many have seen the ones on the list  Scary Movie, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Blade, Bride of Chucky, Hollow Man, Blade II, Scream 3, Training Day

 40 violent movies within the list  Those movies are seen by 12.5 percent of 22 million teens  Scary Movie is seen by 1 million that are 10 year olds  There is more of an exposure to violent movies if there is a television in their bedroom  Parents should not allow them to watch R-rated movies  Exposure of graphic violence in movies that are rated R  Raises questions for the movie-rating system  Movies with violence are also PG-13, such as Fast and Furious and World War Z

 What a person thinks is right to do is from observing others  People look at a media model that is in same situation- same age, etc. more likely to try what they do on-screen in real life  A person tries something new not because they want to but because their peers are doing it, so they feel they have to try it, too  Begins to have a new behavior and change from this one instance  People disregard self-regulation and function through other things, such as the media or other’s experiences  This can reflect on how some people could possibly change their morals for seeing the world

 The theory examines the long-term effects of television has on people  People that spend more time watching television, the more likely television can affect people’s attitudes and behaviors  Television offers messages to the public by shaping how they socialize with others and their beliefs  It leaves people with a misperception of what is true in our world