Saturday, July 7, 2012

The effects of violence in the Media


With more and more of our television shows, movies, and video games being about fifty percent violent one might have to ask, is this the reason why children are bringing guns to schools, innocent lives have been taken because some children cannot distinguish between the real world and television land? In the past 10 years or so, more news stories have played about someone killing a person or group of people and saying that it was because of a video game they play day in and day out or an artist that they listen to that speaks on nothing but murder.

Check out this article that I found the American Psychological Association’s website.


The answers to this research were found after decades of studying children and the television programs that they watched. This research followed children from eight years of age until adulthood.  This research was conducted by psychologists L. Rowell Huesmann, and Leonard Eron.

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