Dave Grossman

Many experts claim that recent incidents of violent crime are directly related to the amount of violence found in movies, news broadcasts, and video games. Children, especially in single-parent homes, often spend more time watching television than with their families and grow up with television heroes as their role models. In the following viewpoint, Dave Grossman makes this argument, contending that the representation of violent murders on television often stimulates what he calls “cluster murders,” in which children reenact the violence they see on the screen. Dave Grossman is an expert on the psychology of killing and is the author of On Killing and the co-author of Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill.

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