Violence desensitization: delimitating a construct through a theoretical revision
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In Mexico, 36% of the houses have at least one victim of violence. The present paper is a theoretical research proved to be relevant due to the existence of several studies regarding the possible desensitizing effects of the exposure to violence in the social arena. The concept of desensitization initially referred to a procedure used to describe the depletion of anxiety or phobias, however, from the different uses of the concept and researches that employed it, only those that include the construct: “desensitization to violence” was reviewed. It has enabled us to understand that the desensitization to violence is a process that occurs as a result of the exposure to violence either in the media or in real life. Furthermore, the phenomenon can
be recognized in the reduction of the physiological, emotional, cognitive or psychological responses, as well as in the perception of, or attention given to violent acts that could be experienced or witnessed. In conclusion, desensitization to violence seems to produce the belief that violence is trivial and inevitable, even capable of generating positive emotions around it.
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