everybody knows that media does or doesn’t (pick one) have a profound influence on our lives and behavior. It’s common sense! Except what is common sense to one person is absolute rubbish to the next. There are probably few areas of modern social science that are as fiercely and rancorously debated as is media psychology. Beginning with the Payne Fund studies of the 1930s, nearly a century of social science research has failed to definitively bring us to any conclusions. Are there any Media certainly is an important part of our lives. Our...