Lastly University of Michigan psychologists Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesmann have followed the viewing habits of a group of children for decades and they found that watching violence on television is the single factor most closely associated with aggressive behavior-more than poverty, race, or parental behavior. In 1960, Eron did a study of over 800 eight-year-olds and he found that children who watched many hours of violent television tended to be more aggressive in the playground and the classroom. Eron and Huesmann checked back with these students 11 and 22 years later. ...

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The media can largely be blamed for the worldwide increase in violence. The complex age of elaborate laptops, portable color televisions in every room, and pocket radio the size of a basic calculator have all taken their toll on society. Today the world has a variety of problems. Violence is aroun...

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Leonard Eron and Rowell Huessman partook in a study of eight-year old boys. Both Eron and Huessman surveyed eight hundred boys finding them to be more aggressive on the playground and in the classroom. ...

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