The first investigation into the possible anti-social effects of mass media was:

a) Research about violent comic books
b) Studies of TV violence during the 1950s
c) The Payne Fund research about violent movies in the 1930s
d) The commission on Obscenity and Pornography’s research in the 1970s


c

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