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Effects of Watching Violent Music on MTV This research was conducted to examine

This research was conducted to examine the effects of watching violent music on MTV on aggression in children. Ten boys between the ages of 12 and 15 years of age watched 2 hours of violent music videos recorded from MTV daily for 6 months. A control group of 10 boys in the same age group watched nonviolent music videos recorded from MTV for two hours daily for six months. At baseline, their aggressiveness was assessed by their teachers and parents on a scale of 0 (non-aggressive) to 10 - (very aggressive, fighting, bullying etc.). This assessment was repeated after 3 months and after 6 months and the results compared. It was found that aggressiveness increased in 50 percent of boys who watched violent music videos from MTV after three months and 60 percent of these boys after 6 months. There was almost no increase in aggressiveness in the boys in the control group who watched nonviolent music videos from MTV. The results show that listening to/viewing violent music videos on MTV increased aggressiveness in adolescent boys. This is in line with other studies which have found similar results.

A series of experiments involving over 500 college students and researchers from Iowa State University and the Texas Department of Human services showed that songs with violent lyrics increase aggression-related thoughts and emotions and that this effect is directly related to the violence in the lyrics (Anderson, Carnagey and Eubanks, 2003, 960-971). These findings are in opposition to popular ideas of positive catharsis or venting effects on violent thoughts and behavior brought on by listening to angry, violent music. The study examined the effects of seven violent songs sung by seven different artists and eight nonviolent songs sung by seven different artists. Students listened to the songs and were given various psychological tasks to perform which measured their aggressive thoughts and feelings, such as classifying words which...

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