Violence in Television

It seems that there is no controversy concerning the effects of violence
viewing on young people. Most scientists agree that there are negative effects
from exposure to media violence and one such effect is desensitizing to
violence. However nobody ever distinguishes between actual violence and
fictional or simulated one, as is the case with video games. Do they really
believe that the teenager, who laughs while seeing a game character being
relentlessly beaten, is equally insensitive when he sees his mother, for
example, being beaten by his father? Is there some sort of connection
between the two that the child sees? The answer would be no because he
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