Researcher says behavior on TV affects our relationships

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Does watching people fight and act out betrayals on TV affect how we live our own home lives? A BYU researcher says it does.

Reality TV is full of people using gossip, lies and secrets to get what they want. But it's just TV, right?

BYU assistant professor Sarah Coyne has been studying how groups of people act after watching these types of shows. She said, "Watching that does have an effect. It had an effect on the relational aggression behavior, and on physical behavior as well."

She says the downside is people start to view this type of aggressive, mean behavior as normal, and Coyne says it can carry over into the home in the way people treat their spouses or children.

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