esearch study of television violence seemed to find "a new indictment of TV violence" (New, 1982, p. 112) in its results and conclusions.
While individual studies vary in goals and methods, a typical measure of the effect of television violence involves having a sample of participants view either preselected TV fare containing what is determined to be violent or programming that lacks violence. Afterward, by means of either interviews or observation of children in group settings, participants are judged in terms of their willingness or desire to behave aggressively in social situations. Based on test results that have repeatedly shown that those viewing violent programs are more likely to act aggressively, two points of view have developed, from "activists who seek to limit television violence and critics who maintain that the evidence is still inconclusive" (Warning, 1982, p. 77).
There is a compelling body of evidence in the literature that there is a positive correlation between TV violence and aggression in children. Eron's now famous Rip Van Winkle
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