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Children's Toleration of Real-Life Aggression after Exposure to Media Violence: A Replication of the Drabman and Thomas Studies
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Children's Toleration of Real-Life Aggression after Exposure to Media Violence: A Replication of the Drabman and Thomas Studies

Fred Molitor and Kenneth William Hirsch
Child study journal, Vol.24(3), pp.191-207
1994

Abstract

Child Behavior Films Aggression Elementary School Students Mass Media Effects Violence Video Viewing Media Influences Tolerance Mass Media Role Elementary Education Television Viewing
Results of four mid-1970s experiments continue to be used as evidence that exposure to media violence desensitizes children to real-life aggression. This study replicated procedures from those experiments using contemporary video materials, and results confirmed original findings that children tend to tolerate more the aggressive behaviors of others if they have first seen television or film violence. (TJQ)

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