Because of the “magical” mirror neurons in the heads, people can easily pick up feelings and behaviors that they have been observing, which has both positive and negative influence on children who are exposed to a world full with new things waiting for them to explore. Observational learning plays an important role in learning the good habits such as social skills for children. But on the other hand, the influence could also be completely negative, such as the influence that media violence has on teenagers.

      As the development of high technique becomes rapidly these years, the spreading time of the information becomes shorter and shorter. And the most beneficial groups are the teenagers who are also the group of people suffer from the high speed of information transmission. Mixed up with all levels of violence, the media does give teenagers a platform of efficiently using the mirror neurons, however, in a bad way. For instance, the Sandy Hook elementary school killer, Adam Lanza was reported that had obsession with video games that contains different levels of violence, such as Splinter Cell, Mercenaries, Call of Duty, and others. We can not say that obsession of games containing violent elements is the only reason Adam Lanza did such an evil things to the children, but it can be one of the reasons why the teenagers have the action of violence.

    It is because of the nerons would fire when we observe other people’s behaviors, and we would experience the feeling of doing the same things ourselves which leads to the emotions we have towards the behaviors. When teenagers playing video games or watching dramas or movies containing violent senses such as shooting or killing, they would literally get so involved with the violence and picturing themselves doing the same killing. And it will result of wanting to literally do it themselves and to experience it to satisfy curiosity.

     Another example of how the combination of media violence and mirror neurons is the 2011 England Riots which is also called “BlackBerry Riots”. In this riots, teenagers posted the pictures of them holding the goods that they robbed from stores on social media such as Twitter and Facebook, and it gave other teenagers of a illusion that what they did was the things that people should be proud of, and after seeing the pictures or videos, their mirror neurons started to do the “magic” work and gave them the proud emotions just picturing themselves do it. That was how the riots began to spread rapidly.

     In conclusion, the combination of media violence and the function of mirror neurons can lead to really huge consequences. But it can not be accused as the reason why people have all kinds of abnormal behaviors. Every coin has two sides, and the same as Mirror neurons, one side of gaining the good necessary habits and the other side of bring the dark side of people just by looking at other people doing bad things.