Children in Front of TV Violence

s become so popular, the question most often asked about it, almost from the time of its appearance, has been "Does extensive viewing of television by our youth contributes significantly to the existence of violence in our society?" .
             A substantial amount of research has been undertaken on the subject of TV violence and its effects on the youth. Even though laboratory research demonstrates that children become more aggressive after they have seen an aggressive film, other studies suggest that such exposure does not affect young viewers negatively.
             Although this debate exists, it is difficult to assume that the contests and values shown in television programming do not influence young viewers. However, we have to note that the influence may be subtle and slow. Albert Bandura, professor of Psychology at Stanford University, has made a representative experiment. "Bandura created several groups from kindergarten kids and showed them different violent movies. In most of these violent movies the victim of tortures was a doll named "Bobo". When the movie was over, the psychologist led the kids in a room with dolls like "Bobo". The ones who had seen the movie with "Bobo" started to attack the dolls and des
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