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Survey of the Opinion of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists on the Viewing of Violent Videos by Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew Sims  and
Graham Melville-Thomas
Andrew Sims
Affiliation:
St James's University Hospital, Leeds
Graham Melville-Thomas
Affiliation:
Preswlfa Child and Family Centre, Cardiff
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‘Violence viewing and aggressive behaviour clearly are positively related, not just in our culture but in other western cultures as well. The weight of evidence strongly suggests that observational learning and attitude change induced by television violence are contributing to the positive relation’.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 9 , Issue 12 , December 1985 , pp. 238 - 240
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