Why Observing Violence Increases the Risk of Violent Behavior by the Observer

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This is your brain on violent video games: Neural desensitization to violence predicts increased aggression following violent video game exposure (2011, unknown): “Habitual exposure to violent media may reduce aggressive inhibitions (see Huesmann & Kirwil, 2007) and empathy for the pain and suffering of others (see Mullin & Linz, 1995), and weaken typical aversions to violence (see Cantor, 1998; Funk et al., 2004), all of which should increase the likelihood…”
In their own words: What bothers children online? (2014, background): “But it is also possible that the outcome is emotional arousal to violence (Bushman et al., 2010), emotional desensitisation to pain in others (Björkqvist, 1985) and violent behavioural scripts for everyday events (Huesmann and Kirwil, 2007).”