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EFS STAGE 5 Critical Evaluation Essay: Media Violence and Aggression Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts, like Dora, B. and Martin, N., doctors of Children¡¯s Trauma Clinic, Royal Free Hospital, say in British Medical Journal that occasional view violence programs do no harm to most children while an article in the Lancet argues that television violence can lead to harmful aggression behavior. According to Dora, b. and Martin, N., although studies have established the connection between TV violence and the level of aggression in some children and young people, the causation has not been proved. They point out that there are four ways television violence may affect children, which are imitating, reduction inhibitions, desensitizing to violence and increasing arousal. Viewing violent program not the only factor that violent behavior,