r influence on more than 900 children in Israel. Children aged 7-12 years evaluated their own and their peers' behaviour. Those who watched WWF were thought to be more violent in school, and those children already predisposed to violence were more likely to imitate the behaviour they saw on television. Lemish calls WWF a "particularly problematic genre" because it looks like a sports competition. It is a staged fantasy, a concept that many children have difficulty comprehending because they lack the cognitive and literacy skills necessary to interpret what they are seeing. This seems to be peculiar to the genre, since children of this age are not generally confused about the difference between fantasy and reality in other genres. Like DuRant, Lemish also found gender differences: girls seemed to be attracted to the violence they saw on the screen for social reasons, but they practised violence at home, with siblings, not at school with their peers. School principals confirmed an increase in incidents of violence. They described dozens of unreported admissions to hospital for fractures and minor concussions, and "hundreds of minor injuries involving visits to school nurses". They noted violence being practised on the playground and generally high levels of emotional distress. Lemish's study so heightened public concern that the issue of media violence was discussed in the Israeli parliament. The result was that one cha

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