Media violence and aggression? Absolutely.

Do you suppose a relationship exists between viewing violent television and behaving aggressively? In addition, discuss a few other variables to consider when exploring this topic. Please briefly explain your answer.

Assuming that relationship is defined as a direct relationship, causal relationship, and correlational relationship; Absolutely, it is quite clear that a relationship exists between viewing violent television and behaving aggressively. A simple understanding of the evolutionary psychology and the human brain will quickly allow one to discern the importance of mirror neurons and how humans from an early age are programmed to be predisposed to learn through imitation of other humans they observe.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144230


Certainly, we can believe to establish ‘morals’ that would have us look down on such actions or when we perceive violence, but I would posit that the human mind is incapable of distinguishing this early on. Anything that has been learned can be unlearned, sure, and maybe the society that we live in looks down on violence. Because of this overwhelming majority that discourages violent acts from being perpetrated without condemnation, we are apt to suppress it, and this unspoken understanding frequently overpowers our potential impulses (but of course, not always). So I believe that exposure to violence or any human behavior repeated to great extent for that matter will increase the likelihood of the viewer in doing something similar themselves. This is why brainwashing is so effective, because everything is relative. If one has little relativity to compare his or her life experiences too, he or she can be controlled by nearly anyone.

http://www.amazon.com/Murderer-Next-Door-Mind-Designed/dp/1594200432


Due to this question being rather open-ended and unstructured, I’ll explain what this means in the real world: if you expose someone often enough to anything, they will become used to it through desensitization, a repeatable and scientifically proven phenomena.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJB-4KF1J03-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=fe4fa4d17e55ecc02348b7af4cc732a1



All this talk about how correlation does not equal causation seems to come as a truism - it doesn’t really get us anywhere either, it’s just a way of being indecisive. If we honestly took a look at the data we have available to us and think it through, it seems quite clear that we are evolutionarily predisposed to acting more readily in accordance with what we see.



I would go so far as to say that people will also become more inclined to engage in whatever behavior being exuded at a biological level the more they see it, and many times more likely, the less relativity they have in life. This is likely why younger people are seen as more naive and impressionable, while older people are perceived as obstinate and stubborn in their beliefs.


“The longer you live believing or acting a certain way, the harder it is to begin believing or acting in another.”