American youth absorb thousands of onscreen violent acts by adulthood

Evidence

Fifty-seven percent of all programs contain violence, and by age eighteen, American youth will have viewed dramatic depictions of 16,000 murders and 200,000 violent acts on television alone. Teen or mature-rated video games, another primary source of entertainment (particularly for boys), feature an average of 180 incidents of aggression in a forty-minute play period, adding up to 5,400 incidents per month. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 616

Categorization

• CANDY: The 16,000 TV murders and 180 aggression incidents per 40 minutes of gaming are striking, quotable numbers.

Related

• American prime-time television sustains a stable eight assaults per hour (similarity 0.82)
• Two-thirds of American dramatic TV programs depict violence at eight assaults per hour. (similarity 0.81)
• Television shows violent crimes at six times their real-world rate (similarity 0.79)
• Television portrays roughly two-thirds of crimes as violent though only ten percent are (similarity 0.78)