How does television impact on violent and aggressive behaviour?

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How does television impact on violent and aggressive behaviour?



There is a lot of mindless action in TV, movies, and video games. Most of this is harmless fun. But increasingly over the last couple of decades there has been discussion about the role of media in aggression. Think of some commercials you've seen: some are very aggressive. Indeed, personally I really hate it when they show "scary" commercials during funny shows. If I am trying to relax and calm down, seeing violence doesn't help my cause.

Movies like The Fast and Furious and its sequels make street racing seem like something really cool to do. But the image above, and real life, shows us that dangerous driving can kill people. Can we say that watching movies like The Fast and the Furious makes people want to race? The answer is not simple -- as usual in social psychology the answer is: it depends.

Based on work by Albert Bandura, we know that seeing someone act violently can lead to the watcher also acting violently. I want to bring this to life for you. Please see below for footage of the "Bobo Doll Experiment" discussed in your text.
Here are some interesting statistics:
99% of households have a TV
Six in ten programs contain violence
By the end of elementary school, the average child views some 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts

Does watching violent television result in more violent children? This is a question that is debated in the media, but from a psychological point of view the answer is pretty clear. Both correlational and experimental evidence suggests that the more violent the content of a child's TV viewing, the more aggressive the child. As we can see in the figure below this correlational study showed that children's television viewing predicted later criminal activity quite well (although the correlations never make it above about .45).

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