A substantial amount of research has been undertaken on the subject of TV violence and its effects on the youth. Even though laboratory research demonstrates that children become more aggressive after they have seen an aggressive film, other studies suggest that such exposure does not affect young viewers negatively.
Although this debate exists, it is difficult to assume that the contests and values shown in television programming do not influence young viewers. However, we have to note that the influence may be subtle and slow. Albert Bandura, professor of Psychology at Stanford University, has made a representative experiment. "Bandura created several groups from kindergarten kids and showed them different violent movies. In most of these violent movies the victim of tortures was a doll named "Bobo". When the movie was over, the psychologist led the kids in a room with dolls like "Bobo". The ones who had seen the movie with "Bobo" started to attack the dolls and destroy them in a much greater degree than the other kids that had not seen the specific film. " Therefore, it is necessary to see the effects of TV violence on average middle-class children, in order to show that the problem is of social concern and importance.
Some people claim that television programming aimed at children, just presents an antisocial system of values. As Ann H. Dyson, a professor of education points out, prohibiting children from watching or talking about X-MEN and POWER RANGERS is "like turning them off". Researchers termed the action in these programs as "Sinister Combat Violence" because they are obsessed primarily with violence, the whole story leads to violence, and the main characters are always pre-occupied with using violence to get their ways. Another professor, Jeff Cole, reveals that everything we learn about the world and our society comes from television. Children, according to Cole learn about existing occupations, cars, brands and the various ethnic groups before even attending school, via TV.