A major topic of conversation nowadays is whether or not voilence on television causes children to bahave more violently. Shortly after I began to research this topic, I realized that it is not a clear cut issue. Evidence can be easily found to support each position. In the following essay I will examine the different positions that can ba taken on this topic and try ro form my own view on the affect violent TV …showed first 75 words of 993 total…

…showed last 75 words of 993 total…reasonably confident, however, that the violent program content which the boys observed is not a significant cause of their aggression."(Seymour & Feshbach 1977) This experiment is somewhat resticted because it focused on a subset of the population. The experimenters would have liked to have involved girls and other ages of boys, but they felt that these particular subjects were a natural control group. They also chose them because they lived relatively close to where they lived.