Media Violence Statements

2019 American Psychological Association (APA Task Force Report on Violent Video Games)

2017 American Psychological Association (Task Force Assessment of Violent Video Games: Science in the Service of Public Interest)

2016 American Academy of Pediatrics (Media and Young Minds)

2016 American Academy of Pediatrics (Media Use in School-Aged Children and Adolescents)

2016 American Academy of Pediatrics (Policy Statement on Virtual Violence)

2015 American Psychological Association (Resolution on Violent Video Game Effects)

2014 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Research Summary on Media Violence)

2013 United Nations (Convention on the Rights of the Child)

2013 American Academy of Pediatrics (Policy Statement on Children, Adolescents, and the Media)

2012 International Society for Research on Aggression (Report of the Media Violence Commission)

2011 American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry  (Children and TV violence)

2009 American Academy of Pediatrics (Policy Statement on Media Violence Effect)

2005 American Psychological Association (Resolution on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media)

2004 Canada Action Agenda

2003 Surgeon General’s Expert Panel on Media Violence

2000 Joint Statement on the Impact of Entertainment Violence on Children Congressional Public Health Summit

2000 Australian Psychological Society

1972 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report: Television and Growing Up