Australian research has shown that there is no significant correlation between early TV violence viewing and later aggression. In Poland, the researchers agreed that a greater preference for violence at an early age was related to later aggression but the effects were not large and the results should be treated cautiously. A cross-national survey was carried out by Huesmann and Eron (1987) across six countries (Holland, Australia, USA, Israel, Poland and Finland) and they found that viewing television violence at an early age is a predictor of later aggression. Cumberbatch (1997) criticised this study saying that there was actually no ...