Become More Aggressive in Real Life Situations

• The Kaiser Family Foundation performed a study in 2003 that showed that nearly half of parents surveyed stated that their children mimicked violent behavior, similar to that on television. Another study, conducted at Iowa State University by Craig Anderson, Nicholas Carnagey and Janie Eubanks in 2003, reported that violent music increased aggressive thoughts and feelings among 500 students. A study conducted in 1956 determined that children exposed to a violent scene on television were more aggressive than those who watched a cartoon in interactions immediately after.
  
  

Continue Aggressive Behavior in Adulthood

• Professor Leonard Eron completed a study in 1960 at the University of Michigan of 856 students in third grade, which found that those who watched violent television at home were more likely to carry the aggression to schools. He went back to the study 11 years later, in 1971, and discovered that boys who watched violent television in the original study were eight times as likely to be in trouble with the law. In 1982 the findings were evaluated again to discover those same violent children were more likely to be convicted of serious crimes, use aggression towards their spouses or discipline children aggressively.
  
  

Stimulates Fear

• Violent music and television causes children to become fearful and this fear continues into adolescence and adulthood. Professors Mark Singer, Karen Slovak, Tracey Frierson and Peter York from the Madel School of Applied Social Sciences surveyed 2,000 students in Ohio and found a direct link between the amount of television watched per day and disorders such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress, as discovered in their article in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry titled "Viewing Preferences, Symptoms of Psychological Trauma, and Violent Behaviors Among Children Who Watch Television." In 1999, a study led by Judith Owens at Brown University of 138 university students showed that media images of violence continued to disturb students many years later and more than 90 percent stated they dealt with problems such as avoidance and sleeping difficulties as a result of violent images.
  
  

Believe World is More Dangerous

• George Gerbner conducted a long-running study on television violence to discover that those who watched television the most saw the world as much more violent than it actually is. This results in them becoming more fearful and anxious in adulthood and was termed "Mean World Syndrome" by Gerbner. Those who fall into this believe that neighborhoods are unsafe, believe they will be a victim of a crime and think that the crime rate is always increasing.