Weekend quote - Aggression Research Program, ISR

Violence is a contagious disease.

As with other contagious diseases, if people are exposed to violence, their own risk of behaving violently increases. Yet, unlike most contagious diseases, a person does not need to be very close to the violence in order to be infected with it.

One can catch it at a distance. The infecting exposure can be an exposure to violence right in front of the person or it can be an exposure to distant violence through electronic media.

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", Aggression Research Program of the University of Michigan's Institute of Social Research