ABSTRACT
Public interest and concern have long focused on the issue of violence on television. During the period from 1952 to 1967, analyses of programs found a great deal of violence on them. Two governmental commissions looked into the problem of television violence in the late 1960s. In 1972, the committee issued a report stating that the convergence of evidence from both laboratory and field studies suggested that viewing violent television programs contributes to aggressive behavior. Discussion about the effects of televised violence needs to be evaluated not only in the light of existing evidence but also in terms of how that evidence is to be assessed. According to many researchers the evidence accumulated in the 1970s suggests overwhelmingly that televised violence and aggression are positively correlated in children. The issue now is what processes produce the relation. Four such processes have been suggested; observational learning, attitude changes, physiological arousal, and justification processes.
