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The Trouble Is in Your Set: The TV as Homunculus
Wagoner, Gary – Phi Delta Kappan, 1975
Presents evidence supporting the position that television viewing can have harmful effects on children. (IRT)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Development, Child Development, Commercial Television
Mass Entertainment and Human Survival: Television's Potential for Prosocial Effects on Adults.
Loye, David – 1975
Psychosocial adaptations are sometimes affected by experiences that are ordinarily considered to be amusements. In 1974, a field study was undertaken by the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future to determine if it is possible to measure the effect of television on adult viewers. A sample of 260 couples, controlled for demographic…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Commercial Television
Television and the Children of Ethnic Minorities.
Comstock, George; Cobbey, Robin E. – 1978
The children of ethnic minorities appear to have a distinctive pattern in regard to television. The pattern is exemplified by a different orientation toward the medium, by differences in tastes and preferences, by atypical behavioral effects, and by different information needs. Minority children, however, may be presumed to share much about…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Childhood Attitudes
Impact on Adults of Dramatized Television Programs.
Gorney, Roderic; And Others – 1976
Psychosocial adaptations are sometimes affected by experiences that are ordinarily considered to be amusements. In 1974, a field study was undertaken by the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future to determine if it is possible to measure the effect of television on adult viewers. A sample of 260 couples, controlled for demographic…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research