Re:i wrote this paper (Score 1)

If you're asking whether the movies were depicting things based on real events or fiction, it's mostly the latter. Our only major criterion for inclusion was that the scenes show violence that could theoretically happen in real life -- i.e. shooting, stabbing, etc. but no Alien v Predator or anything like that. We verified that having seen any of the clips before, i.e. in the subject's own movie-viewing life, did not have a confounding effect on the variables of interest. You can see screenshots from all of the movies we showed our subjects at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/28fc3d