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Clint Ivins
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The document discusses how society may be becoming desensitized to violence and seeking more adrenaline through media consumption. It describes how the sympathetic nervous system controls the body's fight or flight response and how epinephrine release prepares the body for danger. However, constant exposure through violent media can lead to emotional imbalance and a need for more disturbing content. As movies and games thrive on depicting gore, research shows this can cause numbing and desensitization to violence over time in a never-ending search for new shocking material.

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Is Our Society Going Numb?A brief study of the desensitization of our culture towards media violence and the increasing desire for adrenaline.
The Sympathetic Nervous SystemOne of the three branches of the autonomic nervous system; enteric and parasympatheticControls the bodys fight-or-flight responseWorks with the parasympathetic nervous system to maintain homeostasis
FightorFlightWhen a stressful event occurs, epinephrine is increased, sending these hormones to key elements of the body, those necessary to either defend or flee.
But wait, theres moreEpinephrine can also induce moments of rage, anger, andemotional imbalance
Welcome to the Dark SideUnfortunately, the media propagates the need for more disturbing and exciting material
To The Farthest Corner Movies and video games thrive on our search for gore. Research and testing have shown a numbing - a desensitization - to violence and blood-caked movies.However, this also leads to the strange,the disturbing, the shocking, the rude, the obscene - all in a hunt for something new.
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Resources and ReferencesSherwood, LauraleeHuman Physiology: From Cells to Systems CengageLearning, 2008Nicholas L. Carnagey, Craig A. Anderson, Brad J. Bushman The effect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violenceJournal of Experimental Social Psychology,Volume 43, Issue 4,July 2007,Page 684,: Patrick Lencioni, The Painful Reality of Adrenaline Addiction, Kravis Leadership Institute, Leadership Review, Vol. 5, Winter 2005, pp 3-6

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  • 1. Is Our Society Going Numb?A brief study of the desensitization of our culture towards media violence and the increasing desire for adrenaline.
  • 2. The Sympathetic Nervous SystemOne of the three branches of the autonomic nervous system; enteric and parasympatheticControls the bodys fight-or-flight responseWorks with the parasympathetic nervous system to maintain homeostasis
  • 3. FightorFlightWhen a stressful event occurs, epinephrine is increased, sending these hormones to key elements of the body, those necessary to either defend or flee.
  • 4. But wait, theres moreEpinephrine can also induce moments of rage, anger, andemotional imbalance
  • 5. Welcome to the Dark SideUnfortunately, the media propagates the need for more disturbing and exciting material
  • 6. To The Farthest Corner Movies and video games thrive on our search for gore. Research and testing have shown a numbing - a desensitization - to violence and blood-caked movies.However, this also leads to the strange,the disturbing, the shocking, the rude, the obscene - all in a hunt for something new.
  • 10. Resources and ReferencesSherwood, LauraleeHuman Physiology: From Cells to Systems CengageLearning, 2008Nicholas L. Carnagey, Craig A. Anderson, Brad J. Bushman The effect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violenceJournal of Experimental Social Psychology,Volume 43, Issue 4,July 2007,Page 684,: Patrick Lencioni, The Painful Reality of Adrenaline Addiction, Kravis Leadership Institute, Leadership Review, Vol. 5, Winter 2005, pp 3-6