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Origins of Human Aggression: The Other Story
Is human aggression a result of nature or nurture? Featuring interviews with international experts from different research areas, including a Nobel prize winner, and startlingly illuminating footage of children acting out their aggressive impulses, this document examines the complex interactions of factors that affects the socialization of human aggressive behaviour.
The Origins of Human Aggression discusses the biological, environmental and psychological reasons behind human violence and provides guidelines on dealing with its prevention.
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Television addiction
In 1972, a U.S. Surgeon General’s committee released a six-volume Scientific Advisory Report on Television and Social Behavior, which concluded that viewing TV violence has serious consequences for children. They become more willing to respond with aggression in a conflict situation, more willing to harm others, and more aggressive when playing. Appendix III of the report, “Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence,” concludes with the following: “The relation of third-grade television habits to later behavior now appears even more impressive. Not only is the violence of programs preferred in third grade related to peer-rated aggression in the third grade and ten years later, but it is also related positively to self-discipline and anti-social behavior ten years later on.”
Source: http://www.realtruth.org/articles/0203-tta.html
