A great reason to chuck that devil box!
TV violence linked to aggression from the Washington Times.
Children who frequently watched violent TV shows were more likely to engage in highly aggressive behavior as adults, a newly released, 15-year-long study says.
The findings held for both men and women regardless of education, income, social status or family background, University of Michigan psychologists L. Rowell Huesmann, Leonard D. Eron and their colleagues said in the study. It appears in this month’s issue of Developmental Psychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association.
Men who were frequent viewers of violent television programs as children were significantly more likely than other men to have pushed, grabbed or shoved their spouses, the study said. They also were more likely to respond to an insult by shoving a person and more likely to have been convicted of a crime or committed a moving traffic violation.