Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence

By J. Freedman. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Social Psychology

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Objectifying Media (2014, background): “Indeed, most of the research conducted to explore the effects of media images on interpersonal behavior has focused on the role of media violence on aggression (see Freedman, 2002, for a review).”
Public policy and the effects of media violence on children (2007, background): “In addition, there are a handful of vocal critics of the media violence literature (e.g., Cumberbatch, 1989; Fowles, 1999; Freedman, 1984, 2002; Jones, 2002), sometimes supported by one or more of the media industries.”
Paradigm change in aggression research: The time has come to retire the General Aggression Model (2012, background): “Unfortunately, it is insufficient as an explanation of aggressive behavior; its predictions do not fit with real-world aggression and violence statistics (Ferguson, 2010a, b), it rests on assumptions that are problematic or demonstrably false, has largely failed to find supportive data in media viol”
Media Exposure, Aggression and Prosocial Behavior During Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Study (2006, background): “Although these studies are important for addressing the media industry and their supporters’ claims that violent television, movies and videogames are not harmful (see Freedman, 2002), they are limited in a few key ways.”
Chronic violent video game exposure and desensitization to violence: Behavioral and event-related brain potential data. (2006, background): “Critics of the link between media violence and increased aggression often claim that media violence exposure eVects are spurious, masking the eVect of some unmeasured third variable such as aggressive personality (Freedman, 2002).”
The Effects of Media Violence Exposure On Criminal Aggression (2008, background): “Several reviewers, including Kaplan (1984), Felson (1996), and Freedman (2002) have questioned the validity of using measures from the shock administration paradigm for understanding real-life violence and aggression.”
Blazing Angels or Resident Evil? Can Violent Video Games be a Force for Good? (2010, background): “The 2005 American Psychological Association resolution on video game violence (APA, 2005) was written by a committee of causal hypothesis scholars commenting largely on their own work and ignoring that of skeptics or research with opposing findings (e.g., Colwell & Kato, 2003; Durkin & Barber, 2002;”