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Violence, sex and profanity in movies increased significantly from 1992 to 2003, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH...
Kimberly Thompson, associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at HSPH and co-author of the study, said that while the MPAA rating “does provide some insight into the film content,” parents “need to be calibrated with what’s in films today...
Thompson and former HSPH researcher Fumie Yokota compared MPAA ratings and rating reasons for 1,906 films released between Jan. 1, 1992 and Dec. 31, 2003 with information about movie content from two independent resources, Kids-in-Mind and Screen...
Thompson, creator and director of the Kids Risk Project at HSPH, said she hopes the results of the study bring the attention of parents and physicians to the role that media play in the lives of children...
Kimberly M. Thompson, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Kevin M. Haninger, a PhD candidate at HSPH, were invited to speak on the popular sports news program for their research on the content and rating systems used for video games, in the last of a four-part series on the medium broadcast by “SportsCenter...