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This paper offers three examples of empirical research in a field that has existed at a theoretical level in the USSR for more than a half-century. Among the social psychological purposes of art may be included the encouragement of societal solidarity and the promotion of mutual and self-understanding. Regarding art broadly as one of many communication media, content-analytic studies of magazine stories, focussing on descriptions of marital relationships, of paintings, examining men and women as subjects and their contexts, and of movies, concerning themes of violence and cruelty, are reported. Also discussed are results reflecting ways in which art can have a positive moral effect on people.
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Semenov, V.E. (1986). On the Development of the Social Psychology of Art. In: Strickland, L.H., Trusov, V.P., Lockwood, E. (eds) Research in Soviet Social Psychology. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7746-1_6
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