Saul Mcleod, Ph.D., is a qualified psychology teacher with over 18 years experience of working in further and higher education. He has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Clinical Psychology. The endurance and popularity of the Saw franchise has resulted in Billy becoming a pop culture icon and the production of Billy merchandise.

Also, the model and the child are strangers. This, of course, is quite unlike “normal” modeling, which often takes place within the family. Before the releases of Saw III and Saw IV, Billy was used in videos to promote the films on YouTube and MySpace. The next room contained some aggressive toys and some non-aggressive toys. The non-aggressive toys included a tea set, crayons, three bears and plastic farm animals. The aggressive toys included a mallet and peg board, dart guns, and a 3 foot Bobo doll. Later on, when William reached his fourth test, he was instructed by the puppet via video. Six of William's associates were chained to a rotating playground carousel which stopped periodically, resulting in one of the associates sitting in front of a mounted shotgun which would fatally shoot the victim in front of it, if William didn't make the choice to save the person. Reminding William of his dubious business practices, which had often resulted in the denial of health insurance applications, the puppet told him that he could only save two of his associates. ( Saw VI)It was then possible to match the children in each group so that they had similar levels of aggression in their everyday behavior. The experiment is, therefore, an example of a matched pairs design.

The final 24 children (12 boys and 12 girls) were used as a control group and not exposed to any model at all.Woman Shoulder Bag,Shopping Bag,Vintage Bags,Halloween gift,halloween bag,Movie Handbag,Horror Movie,Halloween Handbag,Horror Character inches long Blade Parang Machete-Parang-working machete-Hand forged-Full tang-Tempered-sharpen-working Machete-handmade knife Hoffman, Gregg (13 May 2005). "Saw 2: Dairy #2". JoBlo.com. p.2. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012 . Retrieved 24 August 2011. Children who observed the aggressive model made far more imitative aggressive responses than those who were in the non-aggressive or control groups.