This article provides a meta-analitic review of the effect of exposure to audio visual media violence on aggressive cognition and aggressive affect. Exposure to audio visual media violence significantly enhanced aggressive cognition and aggres¬sive affect when the findings aggregated across studies, but the effect was not uniform across investigations. Only suggestive evidence was obtained concerning mode¬rators of effect, media type, sex and social situation (laboratory vs natural setting). Keywords: meta-analysis, audio vidual media violence, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect
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