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Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press Monday, January 15, 2001 Chicago --- A school-based program that discourages television and video game use makes grade-school children less aggressive, a Stanford University study suggests. Their findings indicate ''that the effects of televised violence in kids are really reversible,'' said Dr. Thomas Robinson, the lead author and an assistant professor of pediatrics. The study, published in the January edition of the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, involved third- and fourth-graders at two comparable public elementary schools in San Jose, Calif. At the end of the study, peer reports of aggression were reduced by 25 percent. At the outset, the youngsters reported an average of about 15 1/2 hours of television viewing weekly. That fell by about one-third by the end of the course, coinciding with reports of less peer aggression. Households involved had their televisions connected to a device that could prevent the set from being turned on if the child exceeded a certain limit. > ON THE WEB: Full text of study: www.archpediatrics.com
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