Do you think movies or TV shows kids watch as the develop into teens, influence their adult personalities? 🤔 [I Like Psychology]

I wish I skipped Twilight in my teens bc no man could ever match up w Edward Cullen being the blueprint 🥱

I always thought so. I used to look up studies on how kids watching violence on TV were influenced to be violent themselves. It might be a tenuous link, but it's there. And today, replace "TV" with "video games", which is probably hatching a huge amount of sociopaths as we speak. I hope I'm wrong.