Conducted by: Psychologists L Rowell Huesmann and Jessica
Moise-Titus, Cheryl Lynn Podolski, Leonard D. Eron
Aim of the study: To show if 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.
Participants:
557 people. At
the start of the experiment they were 6-10 years old. In the second part of the
experiment participants were around 20
Results: The participants, who watched High violent TV-shows
and connected with the characters from the TV-show, had a higher number of
instances where aggression was showed, such as; committing crimes or using
physical violence later on.
Conclusion: Children that were exposed to High Violence TV-shows
were more likely to show aggressive behavior as an adult than the ones exposed
to non-violent TV-shows
