A common finding in the study of aggression is that exposure to television is associated with increased aggressive behavior in children.You are curious as to whether peer pressure is really to blame (peer pressure encourages you to watch television and peer pressure encourages you to be aggressive).You are questioning which of the following rules of causation?
A)The rule of covariance
B)The rule of temporal precedence
C)The third-variable rule
D)Rule of parsimony

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The third-variable rule states that a correlation between two variables may be caused by a third variable that is related to both of them. In this case, peer pressure may be the third variable that is related to both exposure to television and increased aggression, which means that peer pressure could be the real cause of the association between television and aggression.

A Common Finding in the Study of Aggression Is That