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No, there are accounts going back to ancient Greece of young men watching plays or hearing poems that heated their blood and made them want to go and fight and be heroes.
As long as stories have been conveyed throughout history, there has been attempts by some to suggest that they are somehow responsible for the contemporary malaise of the nation.
The modern world recently has tried to blame television, film, Heavy Metal, Gangster Rap and even computer games for making young people commit acts of aggression or violence, as yet there is no independent unbiased research that has found a correlation, if there had been these things would be restricted or banned.
Watching anything that depicts violence can have an effect on some people.True, some psychologists feel that horror movies are harmless, causing nothing more severe than an occasional sleepless night. Nevertheless, a number of respected authorities maintain that there are dangers. According to one psychologist, horror-movie violence has a threefold effect on audiences. “First,” he states, “it makes audiences in general less horrified by, and more indifferent to, violence. Secondly, audiences may learn the lesson that violence is approved behavior. Third,” he goes on, “some can become stimulated by it.”