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IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Liberal Arts and SciencesOF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Department of PsychologyW112 Lagomarcino HallCraig A. Anderson, Ph.D. Ames, IA 50011-3180E-mail: caa@iastate.edu Phone: (515) 294-0283www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/index.html FAX: (515) 294-6424September 14, 2004Comment in response to FCC Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in the matter of “Violent TelevisionProgramming And Its Impact on Children,” MB Docket No. 04-261Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important issue. I will divide my comments into thoseof a strictly scientific factual type and those that are of an expert opinion type. In both cases, mycomments are in keeping with my expertise as a leading researcher in the area of human aggression ingeneral, and in media violence effects research in particular.A brief description of my credentials may be helpful. I am a Professor of Psychology and Chair of theDepartment of Psychology at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa. I obtained my Ph.D. in psychologyfrom Stanford University in 1980. I have over 100 professional publications, most in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. I have been called upon to write state of the art summaries of research onhuman aggression for several major outlets, including the American Psychological Association’sEncyclopedia of Psychology, the Encyclopedia of Sociology, and the Annual Review of Psychology. Myprofessional colleagues and I have published a number of ...