Heavy television viewing cultivates fear of victimization and distrust of others.

Evidence

In a test of this cultivation effect, Gerbner and Gross (1976) found that, indeed, compared with light television viewers, heavy viewers were more fearful of being criminally victimized and were more distrustful of others. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 785

Categorization

• XREF: The cultivation effect corroborates existing vault claims that media-driven fear underwrites public support for controlling outgroups and harsh policy. — connects to: Television diffusion intensified social comparison and increased life dissatisfaction. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1471
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 785