Cultivation theory study
Another cultivation theorist, Leonard Eron, too attempts to prove the effects of television on viewers. By following a group of third graders in suburban New York, he learned that the more violent the tv watched, the more aggressive the children were in school. He returned again when they were nineteen and then again at age thirty. Both times, the previously troubled youngsters revealed problems in marriages and with the law (Phillips). In fact, in a 1993 conference of the National Council for Families and Television, Eron estimated that 10% of violence in the US can be directly attributed to viewing of television (Stossel).