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TV Violence & Aggression in Children

The purpose of this research is to examine whether television violence causes aggression in children. The plan of the research will be to set in historical context the rising concern over this issue, and then to focus on experimental, correlational, and longitudinal psychological research demonstrating that there is compelling evidence in the professional literature that television violence causes children to be aggressive. As appropriate, competing philosophical and theoretical positions on the connection between violent television programming and real-life violence will be alluded to, with a view toward suggesting implications and forecasting possible lines of development of resolution of difficulties posed by that connection.

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 possess the status of social and civic virtue. To the first point, Wolfe asserts that social problems are political and economic, adding that "any society that creates expectations it cannot meet is a society geared of for heavy repression, and American capitalism is a perfect example" (Wolfe, 1973, p. 124). This does not mean that television does not affect perceptions and behavior but rather that television violence per se may not explain feelings of social p...

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