Study shows TV encouraging aggression

Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.

Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.

The effect appeared in both sexes and appeared regardless of how aggressive a person was as a child, American researchers discovered.

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