An Ongoing, and Emotional, Debate Centres Around the Question, "Does

Essay

An ongoing, and emotional, debate centres around the question, "Does media violence make people behave more aggressively?" What have psychologists found when meta-analyses were performed on hundreds of experimental studies? What happens when children cut back on their time watching TV or playing video games? Why do some researchers say that the relationship between media violence and real violence is not strong enough to worry about? What conclusions about the correlation between media violence and violent behaviour have merit according to the social-cognitive view? How do these findings relate to the critical thinking guideline "Tolerate Uncertainty?"