TV Violence & Aggression in Children

The effects of television violence on the behavior and social development of children and adolescents have been debated for decades not least because of the fact that the connection has been riveted in popular imagination. By no means, however, does there appear ever to have been general agreement in popular culture and discourse of either the causes of childhood aggression in the television age or the perceived and proposed remedies, which generally include some version of sanctions against the creation and dissemination of violent television content. Consider for example arguments to the effect that factors besides television may be responsible for aggression in the U.S. and that social aggression may not only not be a vice but rather might actually

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as the children's intelligence and researchers' knowledge of the level of aggression already present in the experience and behavior of children apart from their exposure specifically to TV violence, were taken into account. In other words, this study failed to replicate core studies by Huesmann and Eron. One negative critic of Eron was Sohn (1981), who questioned whether laboratory results obtained by Eron and colleagues had legitimate implications for intervention in early childhood behavior with a view toward reducing aggression in society and building a more healthful community. Specifically, Sohn pointed to the vast difference in correlation factors for preferring violence in the third grade and aggressive social behavior by the end of high school between girls (.13, or relatively mild) and boys (.31, or relatively strong). Similarly, Howitt (1972) questioned Sohn's method of connecting perceived preferences for violence, not in study-selected television programs but rather in the favorite self-selected TV programs of eight-year-old third graders, to the more generally observed aggression behavior of these children as high school seniors. Criticism does not appear to have discouraged Eron and his principal collaborator, Hues
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