The positive influence of TV on people’s psychology
... their moods. The second function is constituting personal relationships. On one hand, people who are lonely or have difficulties in communicating with others in real world. They often get to satisfy themselves with medium like TV. Those people can know what other people are thinking, talking, acting without facing them directly. On the other hand, TV can provide topic when you are talking with others. For example, when you went into dinning-room at noon, your classmates were talking about a famous actor in a prevalent TV play excitedly. If you want to attend them, you must also talk something about the actor, such as his appearance, his clothes, even his hobby and so on. But if you happened not to see the play, you would make yourself in a dilemma. You couldn’t say a word only to keep silence. Another instance, in the coffee time, all the male clerks were discussing political news which was reported in TV news last night. If you didn’t watch TV yesterday, what should you say? If this embarrassment lasted for a long time, you might imagine the consequence. The third function help people recognize their personal identity. The TV-viewers refer to the television program as a criterion of real life. They also compare themselves with people in TV. Sometimes they discovered that someone who lived around them was similar with actors or actresses’ action in the plays. So they produce the same feeling and mentation as people in TV. These situations often happen in children. When children were watch TV program like cartoon, they always looked themselves as the hero of the cartoon. If a child saw a person who was in trouble, maybe he would give a help as cartoon showed. That’s why we call on healthy, positive children program of TV. As the explaining of the reality, TV program help viewers acknowledge their own life and find the salvations to the problem. Due to human being’s limitation, nobody can know everything in the world. Television provides us a wide view. We can learn various kinds of knowledge from TV. We can know how to cook, how to make up, we can also know something about s...