An Ongoing,and Emotional Debate,centers Around the Question,"Does Media Violence Make

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An ongoing,and emotional debate,centers 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 behavior have merit according to the social-cognitive view? How do these findings relate to the critical thinking guideline,"Tolerate Uncertainty"?