Watching TV And Playing Video Games Make Kids And Adults More Violent

By Teddy Peterson on November 29th, 2007

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Watching Violent TV Programs and playing violent video games makes kids and adults more aggressive. L. Rowell Huesmann, the Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor of Communication Studies and Psychology, and a senior research scientist at the U-M Institute for Social Research said “The research clearly shows that exposure to virtual violence increases the risk that both children and adults will behave aggressively.” Children lives in America spend three to four hours daily watching violent programs. Mr.Huesmann said “Exposure to violent electronic media has a larger effect than all but one other well-known threat to public health. The only effect slightly larger than the effect of media violence on aggression is that of cigarette smoking on lung cancer.” Continuing the discussion he said “As with many other public health threats, not every child who is exposed to this threat will acquire the affliction of violent behaviour. But that does not diminish the need to address the threat—as a society and as parents by trying to control children’s exposure to violent media to the extent that we can.”

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