There is a major controversy over whether or not media violence has an affect on the aggressiveness of the viewer. There are many articles published on this topic a day, in particular two, published in psychological journals. One, "Effect of Television Violence on Aggressiveness," involves different field and correlation studies. The Second, "Mass Media Treatment of Violence in Sports and its Effects," deals with case studies and surveys focusing more on sports. The authors are trying to decide if there is any proof that media violence affects the aggressive behavior of those who people watching it.
             In the first article, Jonathan Freeman explores whether or not viewing television violence has an effect on aggressive behavior in the viewer. One study, conducted by Feshbach and Singer, boys in seven different residential school were assigned to watch either violent or nonviolent programming for a period of six weeks. The results showed that the boys who watched only non-violent programs were, generally, more aggressive than those who were exposed to only programs with high amounts of violence. This particular study presents information that disproves the casual theory. Another study, known as the Belgian Study, was also mentioned in the article. In this one, four houses at an institutional high school for boys were randomly assigned to separate conditions. Two of the houses saw a violent movie every night for one week, while the other two saw non violent movies every night for the same period of time. The only problem with this experiment, was that the attitudes, and aggressiveness of the individuals involved, were for the most part, dependent upon that of the other boys. So, in order to compensate for this, the conductors of the experiment used analyses of variance (ANOVA), or treating the groups as independent from one another. The results of this experiment were very mixed. One of the cottages that v...