"I come from a country ... that puts a lot of American movies on and has more graphic violence within its live drama on the BBC than anywhere else, and there is a lot less violence in the United Kingdom than there is here," says Stringer. ... On the other hand, a study was performed in Notel, Canada which pertained to a small rural town that did not have television until 1973. Before the town received its first taste of television a psychologist at the University of British Columbia by the name of Tannis MacBeth Williams went to perform a study. ... With these facts in mind it is ver...

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In a series of articles published in the Journal of communication George Gerbner and his associates claim that heavy television watching cultivates conceptions of reality in viewers which are consistent in the world presented in television dramas but not in reality. ... (Gerbner 1978) This is best reflected in Gerbner's study on adolescents and their ideas on when it is right or wrong to hit someone. ...

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With a significant number of studies supporting the causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children, we know the more life-like the violence depicted the more likely it will be learned (Buchanan). ... Studies of younger viewers who daily watch cartoons, police shows, and murder dramas with heavy doses of violence further relate to the potency of TV (Buchanan). ...

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