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Violent Content

-57% of TV program contain violence

-Children programming contains 5 times more violence than prime time television.

-25% of violent acts involve handguns

-Children’s TV shows contain about 20 violent acts each hour

Television Violence,

and it’s effect on

Child Behavior

How does TV violence mislead children?

Children can’t tell what is real from fiction

- lack of real-life experience

- believe what they see

- they imitate what they see

Violence is often rewarded and seldom has negative consequences.

- 73% of perpetrators on TV are unpunished (National Television Violence Study, 1992)

- Heroes are rarely unpunished

- no bleeding, no one gets hurt

- people killed just disappear

Effects

Aggressor effect-

encourages violent behavior

accepting violence as a way to solve problem

Victim effect-

increasing fearfulness

perceives “culture of meanness”

Bystander effectleads to callousness, accepting violence as normal, & dulls the emotion response to violence and its victim

Appetite effect

builds a desire to watch more violence

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