Hooray!!
I spied the headline "Anti-social music brings out the biff, says scientist" and thought well, at least he's not going to link it to visual imagery and the whole video game discourse.
Color me wrong.
Dr Wayne Warburton says consistent exposure to violent music videos may help hard-wire the brain with aggression-related concepts and thought patterns.
"Across three decades, research has converged to suggest that exposure to music with violent themes increases the likelihood of aggressive behaviour, along with aggressive and hostile thoughts and negative emotions such as anger, unfriendliness and fear," he said yesterday.
I really wish that there were more specifics here. It's too easy to just make a correlation between violent youth and violent media. But where's the causation? The classic rebuttal to this argument is that youth who are predisposed towards violence are attracted to violent media, not that violent media makes youth violent. Also, it would be helpful to have some data on socioeconomic status, gender, and age.
In short, can we have a more nuanced conversation about this topic? Or are we going to continue to hash out the same yes/no arguments that have been directing the discussion?
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