1900-1960s Media Violence

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Q1: Movies before the 60s were more restricted due to more stringent censorship guidelines, can we use data from 1900-1960s and analyze it in the same way to examine the prediction mentioned in the paper "if violence in movies decreases (either through legislation or voluntary action) it is unlikely that homicides or assaults would also decrease.” (Markey, French, & Markey, 2015)?

Q2: Is there research that focuses on violence and aggression and uses media violence as one of the factors? In other words, based on previous research, can we create a model of violence and factors that correlate with it--including media violence--to see how big of a factor media violence is compared to the others? It would be interesting to see whether seeing violence

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