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Like other kinds of violence, interpersonal aggression in visual media can cause increase aggression in viewers, study suggests

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USA Today reports:

Researchers have long known that watching violence on TV or in movies ratchets up aggression, but what about watching people being mean to one another? Could watching Mean Girls make you as aggressive as watching Kill Bill?

A new study suggests the answer is yes.

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September 15, 2008 at 7:56 pm

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