Media Violence

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There has been far-reaching research on the link between televised violence and violent behavior amongst adolescents. Current studies have shown a direct correlation between aggressive conduct and watching violence depicted in many media services and suggest that media is a variable that put children at risk of aggressive behavior (Huesmann, Moise-Titus, Podolski, & Eron, 1992). According to the American Psychological Association, watching playing violent scenes them on games and television, can desensitize children to the suffering and pain of others and may be a greater risk of acting aggressively toward others and they're less bothered by violence in general and less likely to see anything wrong with it. Studies disclose that children watch roughly twenty eight hours of television a week (Tompkins, 2003). American children and adolescents are exposed to increasing amounts of media violence, especially in television, movies, video games, and youth-oriented music. By 18, the average young person will have viewed 200,000 acts of violence on television (Huesmann, Moise-Titus, Podolski, & Eron, 1992). Many of the studies that claim positive results concerning a link between media violence and ensuing aggression, actually have negative or inconclusive results. Media violence researches frequently fail to report for other variables such as heredity traits, personality and introduction to family violence that may explain both the reason some people become violent and why they may decide to expose themselves to violent media.

In more recent years, violence has become the most popular form of entertainment. Most fictional programs on television and scenes depicted in most games need this violence to develop a storyline that would be i...

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...ut the violent act in fantasy or play right after seeing it on TV (Huesmann, Moise-Titus, Podolski, & Eron, 1992). This is thought to be workable because of the notion that if a child does not learn to hold back their aggression then they will not learn social skills such as the capability to collaborate and make peace with others.

Works Cited

Huesmann, L. R., Moise-Titus, J., Podolski, C.-L., & Eron, L. D. (1992). "Longitudinal Relations Between Children's Exposure to TV Violence and Their Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: 1977 - 1992. Developmental Psychology , 202-221.

Malamuth, N. M., & Check, J. V. (1981). The Effects of Mass Exposure on acceptance of Violence against Women: A Field Experiment . Journal of Research in Personality , 436-446.

Tompkins, A. (2003). The Psychological Effect of Violent Media on Children. Allpsych Journal .

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