TV and Reality Different but OKay

Sex, luxury, and drama sells. But by watching television shows are we putting fantasy thoughts of reality in our head? Isn’t that why we watch television in the first place? No one wants to turn on the television and see chubby, middle class citizens go to a cubicle for 10 hours a day, sit in rush hour traffic, get drunk every Friday night with the “boys,” and spend the rest of the time on the …

…chit chat, and where more than one person can hear a story (try doing that with a book, and it gets hard when not every one reads at the same pace.) Humans are adaptive beings. We are resilient throughout our adult lives, but we do not acquire entirely new personalities. In a sense, we change but remain the same-underlying the change is coherence and stability (Bengston, 1996) Bibliography Many Television Shows, and "Psychology Of Adjustment"-Santrock