. Reviewers of thousands of studies have concluded that TV violence . A) decreases the likelihood of hostile emotions, but increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior in viewers B) has a negative impact on preschool children, but does not increase aggression in older children C) is common in nighttime programming, but perpetrators are almost always punished D) can increase the likelihood of hostile thoughts and aggressive behavior in viewers

Option D

Explanation:

First we need to understand violence and the psychology behind violence, when there are violence activities, it causes chaos, and changes a person psychological and mental state to an aggressive being. So violence on TV shows is likely to increase hostile situation with people prone to it, because they saw it on TV and once this is seen on TV they will likely want to act in that capacity unless the message passed when acting violence is to put a stop to. So violence on TV shows is more likely to increase hostile thoughts and aggressive behaviour in views.

increases the likelihood of hostile thoughts and aggressive behaviors in viewers.

Explanation: According to research, TV violence "can increase the likelihood of hostile thoughts and aggressive behaviours in viewers. This can be explained with the modeling theory which is the learning of a new skill by copying other people. This copying might be done consciously or unconsciously. It is that what an individual feeds it's mind with will most likely become manifest in the physical.

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