Cultivation Theory is basically when people believe what they see on t.v.. The more people watch t.v. then the more they have to believe is true. A popular phenomenon in American television is torture. I probably can't count on both hands the amount of movies or shows that display torture, and it is almost always effective. It's possible that the the popularization of torture on t.v. is what has caused it's use to continue in real life. According to two polls, the majority of American citizens believe torture works and/or is justified. This has been proven to be untrue when dealing with terrorists. One did decide to spill the beans, but made the whole thing up, and sent the CIA to Montana to find nothing. One agent even talked about how torture doesn't work and went on to talk about how to successfully interrorgate terrorists.