1. Managing Conflicts and Preventing Violence Lesson 3 How do you think media violence impacts the emotions of those who watch it? How do you think media violence impacts what a person thinks about violence?

2. Managing Conflicts and Preventing Violence Lesson 3 Emotions A person may get excited A person may get angry or feel an increase of anger A person may feel afraid A person may feel defensive A person may feel mistrusting

3. Managing Conflicts and Preventing Violence Lesson 3 Thoughts A person think violence is acceptable A person might think violence is fun A person might think violence is normal A person might think violence is unavoidable A person might think violence doesn’t hurt A person might think violence is permissible A person might think there are no consequences

4. Managing Conflicts and Preventing Violence Lesson 3 If a person thinks that he or she must fight to get respect, he or she may feel aggressive and angry towards others If a person feels insecure and scared, he or she might think that it is impossible to talk to someone about a situation that irritates him or her

5. Stage 1- Thoughts and Emotions The fuel for potential violence is conflict What can ignite the fuel is how you handle the conflict Our thoughts and emotions about violence impact our choice of skills we use Our thoughts and emotions can be part of the ignition

6. Non-violent thoughts I can handle this calmly There must be a misunderstanding here Something is wrong. I’ll have to see if I can figure out what happened Stage 1- Thoughts and Emotions

7. THOUGHTS BEHAVIORS EMOTIONS knowledge belief values perceptions angry irritated excited scared