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The research presented in this book, originally published in 1986, looks to pinpoint the psychological processes involved in the media violence-aggression relation. The essays here delve deeply into aggression study and compares results about media influence across 5 countries.

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To a remarkable extent, the researchers succeed in achieving their stated objectives: to develop a psychological model for the media violence-aggression link; to integrate the findings with other aggression research; and to extend the investigation beyond North America. Funding from the National Institute of Mental Health enabled a three-year longitudinal study to be carried out in the US, Finland, Australia, Israel, and Poland. Television-viewing habits and aggressive behaviors of substantial samples of six-to-ten-year-old children and their parents were investigated between 1977 and 1983. Results were consistent across cultures, with more aggressive children watching more media violence in every country studied. The major contribution of this study, however, is not that predictable result. Rather, it is the evidence supporting a bidirectional learning model. Aggressive activity is followed by media violence exposure which in turn is followed by aggressive behavior established at an early age. The mediating roles of frustration, limited intellectual capacity, and aggressive fantasies are explored. The overall weight of the results support and extend prior work in the learning of aggressive behavior. Technically detailed and densely documented, the accessibility of the information contained in this work is facilitated by ample references, subject and author indexes, clear headings, and a useful preface and epilogue. For advanced undergraduates and graduate students.-L.M.C. Abbott, California School of Professional Psychology-Fresno