> Reviews of this literature typically conclude that there is evidence that viewing violent media is associated with aggression
Right at the start of the abstract of the second article. As the parent says, there is a wide consensus on this.
Right at the start of the abstract of the second article. As the parent says, there is a wide consensus on this.
The introduction from which you cherry-pick excludes a refutation of claims about media violence and aggression, not because they are valid[0] or causal, but because their analysis was focused on answering a different question. It is that different question which seems relevant to refuting the parent’s original claim.
If you can offer some actual evidence for the actual original claim, not this differently stated claim, I would certainly be interested in that.
[0] First, these claims apply only to non-interactive media, which a chatbot is not. Studies on video games more consistently show no or negative correlations. Second, they almost certainly are not real. The last study I cited explicitly mentions how these prior lab results do not seem to transfer to real life outcomes. And I cannot write a dissertation here about the flawed methodology of many of these aggression studies and the outright fraud of people who conducted some of them, like Fredric Wertham (whose fraud was not uncovered until 2012).