Politician: A major social problem is children hurting other children  The results of a recent experiment by psychologists establish that watching violent films is at least partly responsible for this aggressive behavior  The psychologists conducted an experiment in which one group of children watched a film of people punching Bobo the Clown dolls  A second group of children was not shown the film  Afterward, both groups of children played together in a room containing a Bobo doll
Most of the children who had seen the film punched the Bobo doll, while most of the other children did not
The children who had been shown the film were found to be no more likely than the children who had not been shown the film to punch other children.