Statements on Media Violence Effects by Major Scientific Groups

2023 U.S. Surgeon General's report on Social Media and Youth Mental Health

2023 American Psychological Association Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence

2022 American Academy of Family Physicians on Violence in the Media and Entertainment

2019 American Psychological Association Task Force Report on Violent Video Games

2018 International Society for Research on Aggression Commission on Youth Violence

2017 National Academy of Sciences report on Screen Violence and Youth Behavior

2017 American Psychological Association Task Force Assessment of Violent Video Games

2016 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Media and Young Minds (0-5 years)

2016 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Media Use in School-Aged

2016 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Virtual Violence

2015 American Psychological Association Policy Statement and Resolution on Violent Video Game Effects

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

2014 State of New Jersey Media Violence Pamphlet

2013 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

2013 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Children & Media Use

2012 International Society for Research on Aggression Statement on Media Violence Effects

2011 American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry  Children & TV Violence

2011 American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Understanding Violent Behavior in Children and Adolescents

2009 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Media Violence Effects

2005 American Psychological Association

2004 Canada Action Agenda

2003 Surgeon General's Expert Panel on Media Violence  Note: This is not an official report from the U.S. Surgeon General's office. This is a journal article written by the members of the media violence expert panel for the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest. For more details, see the Ceci & Bjork editorial.

2000 Joint Statement to U.S. Congress by a Summit of Six Professional/Scientific Societies

2000 Australian Psychological Society

1982 National Institute of Mental Health. Television and Behavior: Ten year's of Scientific Progress and Implications for the Eighties.

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