A Comprehensive Investigation of the Theories Studying the Effects of Observing Violence on Television

Abstract

Before any evaluation can be made of the studies to be reported, it is important to consider the many variables that may "dilute" the potency of the results. Without initial consideration of these variables, many of the studies would be ascribed considerably more validity than they, in reality, actually carry. In fact, it will become apparent in the succeeding pages of this report that most of the studies fail to take these variables into consideration and for those reasons, their results cannot be accepted as "truth."