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● Long-term fight between dualism (separate existence of mind & body) and holistic
view (mind-body integration)
● Increase in biologically-inspired media researches
○ Recent studies - focus on brain activities during mediated message viewing to
predict future real-life behavior
■ Cooper et al. (2015) show evidence that brain activity in response to online
antismoking messages can significantly increase prediction accuracy of
smoking behavior change.
■ Yegiyan (2015) - processing of promotional messages following emotionally
arousing stimuli is a function of the interaction between motivational system
activation and consolidation of the preceding message content in memory
systems
● Is social media changing your brain?
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFJ9Fr450I
Brain, Mind & Media