Aggression
Some scholars believe that behaviors like aggression may be partially learned by watching and imitating people's behavior, while other researchers have concluded that the media may have some small effects on aggression. There is also research questioning this view. For instance, a long-term outcome study of youth found no long-term relationship between playing violent video games and youth violence or bullying. One study suggested there is a smaller effect of violent video games on aggression than has been found with television violence on aggression. This effect is positively associated with type of game violence and negatively associated to time spent playing the games. The author concluded that insufficient evidence exists to link video game violence with aggression. However, another study suggested links to aggressive behavior.
Tina Malti
Malti has conducted extensive research on socio-emotional development, the origins of aggression, and kindness from early childhood to late adolescence. She adopts a clinical-developmental framework to generate new knowledge on why children and adolescents engage in behaviors that are harmful or beneficial to others. Her empirical research focuses on the role of emotional processes in aggression and kindness, as well as how to effectively increase healthy long-term outcomes and reduce negative effects of exposure to violence in children facing multiple forms of adversity.