Jersey Shore:D

“You are what you watch” (Melisa Dahl) does watching a reality show like Jersey Shore make you dumber?  It's called media priming -- the idea that the things we watch or listen to or read influence our emotions and our behavior. Think you're too smart to be influenced by the media you consume? Anything we see -- a person on the street, an ad on TV, a character in a movie has some influence on our next thoughts, emotions or actions, simply because it's on the top of your mind. So my question is does watching Jersey Shore make you dumber? The answer is yes it can make you feel dumber because what you just watched is on the top of your mind and a study has been done about “Some of the 81 volunteers were instructed to read a longer version of the "soccer hooligan" story, while others read a shorter version -- and the control group read a rather boring story in which Meier does nothing stupid. Then researchers gave the volunteers a multiple choice general knowledge test, including questions like, "What is the capital of Libya?" and "What kind of speed is expressed by the letter 'c' in physics?" and "Who painted La Guernica? To be fair, these are tough questions to answer sans-Internet regardless of whether you've just watched something vapid like "Toddlers and Tiaras." But, as the researchers write, "participants who read a narrative about a stupidly acting soccer hooligan performed worse in the knowledge test than participants who read a narrative about a character with no reference to his intellectual abilities”(bodyodd.msnbc.com). The answer according to this is yes because if you replace the soccer story with the jersey shore cast you would perform worse on the test.

jershore cast 2011! making you dumber?