Violence on TV and the Internet. Of particular concern is that more than 60% of all television programs show violence (Seawell, 1998). Typically, children are likely to see 8,000 murders and at least 100,000 other acts of violence prior to leaving elementary school at age 12 years (Huston et al., 1992) Separation of internal thought from external perception marks the emergence of symbolic capacity and directly facilitates cognitive growth and abstract thinking. Until these capacities are developed, children cannot reflect upon or understand the consequences of violent behavior (Levin, 1998, 2003; Van Hoorn, Nourot, Scales, & Alward, 2003). As such, children who are developing internal symbolic systems are vulnerable to the images of media (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; Levin, 2003), especially when the images are violent (Huesmann et al., 2003; Anderson et al., 2003).
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