<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Hah. Many do think TV actors are real. When a soap opera woman has a baby on the show, or gets married on the show, she gets all sorts of mail congratulating her, baby clothes, gifts, etc. Clearly many cannot separate TV from life itself. What a man I know found out that John Wayne was really Marion Morrison, did not do his own stunts and wore a wig, he stopped being a fan. And then there are those who think that you cannot put anything on TV that isn't true! Never overestimate the under average IQ bunch. bil<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><br><div><div class=""><div>On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">What about those natural experiment findings from India and Brazil showing rapid culturally induced shifts in fertility due to television? Are soap opera characters vivid enough to act as counterparts to grandmothers in setting expectations?</blockquote>
<div><br></div></div><div>Yes, I would think so. It's not that women believe the characters are real, but that they believe the characters model the lifestyle and life history of real upper middle class women whom they wish to emulate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And of course, television in and of itself is also a form of birth control. ;)</div><div><br></div></div><div class=""><div>
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