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Publication Date: 1996
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The Role of Source Confusions in Television's Cultivation of Social Reality Judgments.
Mares, Marie-Louise
Human Communication Research, v23 n2 p278-97 Dec 1996
Examines whether errors in memory (specifically source confusions) contribute to the link between television viewing and social reality judgments. Finds that a manipulation of the visual similarity of the news and fictional programming affected subjects' tendency to make source confusions. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Memory, Television Research, Television Viewing
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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