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Superheroes are under attack! This time, however, the attack is not at the hands of comic book villains and other-worldly menaces. It’s coming from psychologists studying the behavior of young boys, who have determined that if we want to see “kinder, less stereotypical male behaviors,” we’ve go to keep an eye on the actions of cinematic superheroes.
Dr. Sharon Lamb of the University of Massachusetts recently spoke at a psychology convention and stated: “There is a big difference in the movie superhero of today and the comic book superhero of yesterday. Today’s superhero is too much like an action hero who participates in non-stop violence; he’s aggressive, sarcastic, and rarely speaks to the virtue of doing good for humanity.”
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