Christopher J. Ferguson

James Bond's chest hair, gadgets and love interests aren't the only things that have changed about the 007 franchise over the years.The superspy and his enemies have become much more violent since the first Bond movie, "Dr. No," came out in 1962, new research suggests.The 2008 Bond movie " Quantum of Solace " featured more than twice as many violent acts as the first installment, researchers reported in the December issue of the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. What's more, the 2008 film found Bond or his enemies three times as likely to engage in serious violence – such as punching, kicking or using a weapon – as in the earliest films. (A non-serious form of violence would be slapping, for instance.)But scientists don't agree on whether such movie violence has any impact on behavior outside the theater. Studies have shown that people become desensitized to repeated violence in movies, but how that affects aggressive play or real-life violence is unclear."Our brai...

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