This article, published by the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, talks about how TV violence can make
children be more violent themselves. It states that television
violence can make children immune to violence, help them accept
it as a form of problem solving, and cause them to imitate the
violence that they see on TV. In discussion sections, we have
also gone over these same findings, and have generally concluded
them to be true. However, we were also given articles to read
that maintained that violent television and games had positive
attributes as well; one even claimed that this violence helps to
decrease violent behaviors in adolescents. Overall, I feel like
this is an issue where the correlation doesn't equal causation
principal applies well. We are not sure whether aggressive
children, are more likely to watch violent shows, and therefore
are simply more violent because they already had the tendency to
be more aggressive. It could also be that children who grow up
in more violent en