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<*> - says Dr. Scott May, cochairman of the committee on Children's Television and Media of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, he says that the stories can squelch the children's imagination. Children have nightmares, wake up during the night and cannot get back to sleep again especially when they watch horrors, war films or catastrophic films. They also imitate the behaviour of bad heros they saw in movies and they usually show it off by beating younger pupils at schools or using swear words in front of other children. They are impressed by the brutal power exposed on television, used to cause pain or damage to people.