Throughout my years, I have heard numerous roundtable discussions by experts in the scientific community who argue that media-violence viewing is one factor that contributes to the development of aggression in children. Children's viewing of violent TV shows, their identification with aggressive same-sex TV characters, and their perceptions that TV violence is realistic are all linked to later aggression as young adults, for both males and females. That is the conclusion of a 15-year longitudinal study of 329 youth published in the March, 2003 issue of Developmental Psychology. These findings hold true for any child from any family, regardless of the child's original aggression levels, their intellectual capabilities, their social status as measured by their parents' education or occupation, their parents' aggressiveness, or the mother's and father's parenting style.
Psychologists L. Rowell Huesmann, Ph.D., Jessica Moise-Titus, Ph.D., Cheryl-Lynn Podolski, M.A., and Leonard D.......

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Title: Children And Television Violence
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