Quiz 9: Have The Signs of Aggression in People Increased, Decreased, or Stayed the Same in the Past Decade?

Introduction: The signs of aggression in people has increased over the past decade from 1999 to 2009. I think that this is so, because I have noticed about how much violence has gone up in movies and video games this past decade. This can be factor in someone to have aggression or even have increased aggression. I also feel that we are in times where some people have lost respect for others like people talking behind other people's backs which might show indirect aggression. I have noticed this based on me knowing people that have had these experiences even in the past ten years.

Literature Review:

Anderson, Craig A. (2003 October). "Violent Video Games: Myths, Facts, and Unanswered Questions." <http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.html>.


Shin, Grace. (2008 January 4). "Video Games: A Cause of Violence and Aggression." <http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1723>.

I picked these two articles, because these deal with a factor that could possibly lead people to have aggression which is violent video games. Even the authors agree with me that violence in video games can be a cause in someone to have aggression. This is especially with how violence has heightened up in video games during the past decade leading even more people of different age groups to have some sort of aggression.

Method: How I want to go about proving this is that I am going to put together a survey. This survey will ask questions such as how much has video game violence as well as violence on television and in movies changed in the last ten years and how much has the signs of aggression in people changed in the past decade. The questions will have to do with the different possible causes of aggression and the different effects that could occur based on someone having aggression. I will have ten questions on this survey and I'll have the answers be a scale of numbers from one to five. One will be that it decreased a lot, two will be that it decreased a little, three will be that it stayed the same, four will be that it increased a little, and five will be that it increased a lot. I'll hand this survey out to ten random people and I'll make sure that they will get it back to me. Once I get all of the surveys back, I will evaluate all of the people's answers to the questions to see if how similiar their answers would be to mine. This will help me to see whether my hypothesis is right or not.