In the first article, Jonathan Freeman explores whether or not viewing television violence has an effect on aggressive behavior in the viewer. One study, conducted by Feshbach and Singer, boys in seven different residential school were assigned to watch either violent or nonviolent programming for a period of six weeks. The results showed that the boys who watched only non-violent programs were, generally, more aggressive than those who were exposed to only programs with high amounts of violence. This particular study presents information that disproves the casual theory. Another study, known as the Belgian Study, was also ment

These articles provided information about media violence and its effects on the viewers of the programming. It is my personal belief that media violence has no effect whatsoever on the aggressiveness of the viewers. The evidence in these articles backs up my theory. Some people are born naturally aggressive, and a lot of time assertiveness gets misinterpreted as aggressiveness. Television violence is make believe, and most people are able to distinguish fact from fiction. As for sports violence, hockey is a violent sport in itself. The players and viewers realize that violence is a part of contact sports. They play in order to win the game, no matter what it take, regardless of how the media makes it look. The media has no direct effect on the aggressiveness of those watching it.

ioned in the article. In this one, four houses at an institutional high school for boys were randomly assigned to separate conditions. Two of the houses saw a violent movie every night for one week, while the other two saw non violent movies every night for the same period of time. The only problem with this experiment, was that the attitudes, and aggressiveness of the individuals involved, were for the most part, dependent upon that of the other boys. So, in order to compensate for this, the conductors of the experiment used analyses of variance (ANOVA), or treating the groups as independent from one another. The results of this experiment were very mixed. One of the cottages th

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