Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal shot eight of his classmates in Paducah, Kentucky, shortly after watching the movie Basketball Diaries, in which Leonardo DiCaprio committed a similar act of violence. This is an example of

A) catharsis aggression theory.
B) the social learning of violence.
C) excitation transfer theory.
D) the frustration-aggression hypothesis.

Answer: B

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