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Media Violence Research attempts to determine whether a link between consuming media violence and subsequent aggressive and violent behavior exists. Although a majority of social scientists support this link (see Anderson et al., 2003 for a review), some critics point out that methodological and theoretical problems with the existing literature limit interpretation of findings in this area.
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Media Violence Research attempts to determine whether a link between consuming media violence and subsequent aggressive and violent behavior exists. Although a majority of social scientists support this link (see Anderson et al., 2003 for a review), some critics point out that methodological and theoretical problems with the existing literature limit interpretation of findings in this area.
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- Definitions of aggression have improved with time. Most researchers agree that aggression, as a construct involves willful intent to cause harm or intent to another person who would wish to avoid the same. As such the problem may have less to do with the definition of aggression, but rather how aggression is measured in studies, and how aggression and violent crime are used interchangeably in the public eye.
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Failure to account for "third" variables. Media violence studies regularly fail to account for other variables such as genetics, personality and exposure to family violence that may explain both why some people become violent and why those same people may choose to expose themselves to violent media.
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