Does media violence inspire real violence?

This is an often conflagratory topic in our media driven society. Any insights on it can certainly be helpful, especially when proposed by such lumenaries.

Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts argue that fifty years of evidence show that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later. Others maintain that the scientific evidence simply does not show that watching violence either produces violence in people, or desensitizes them to it.

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