Effect of Violent Movies
The Effects of Violent Movies on Children and Teens: Many parents are concerned about the findings just published in Pediatrics the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics linking violence in movies to higher levels of aggression and violent behavior recognizing that many children love violent movies parents are wondering how to gauge which movies their kids should be watching or if their children should be seeing violence at all state of development be aware that adolescent brains when compared to adult brains are especially vulnerable to what they see here at experience they are still building their beliefs about the world about other people and about themselves always remember that your teenagers brain will continue to unfold and develop until their mid-20s external influences some neuroscientists warn us that but the time the brain reaches adolescence brain development is heavily governed by external influences what the adolescent brain sees it encodes it internalize...