Television and Behavior: Technical reviews
Television and Behavior: Technical reviews

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Published: 1982

Total Pages: 372

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Abstract: A comprehensive report summarizes the past 10 years of research activities and findings concerning the effects of television viewing on child behavior and development. Approximately 90% of all research publications on this topic appeared during this period, representing over 2500 titles. The report is presented in 2 volumes, a summary report and technical reviews. The technical reviews comprise overall, comprehensive, and critical syntheses of the scientific literature on specific topic areas, developed by 24 researchers in this area. The topic areas address such issues as cognitive and emotional aspects of television viewing; television's influences on physical and mental health; television as it relates to socialization and viewer's conceptions of social reality; and television as an American institution. The overall orientation of the report is toward research and public health issues.

Childhood Aggression and Violence
Childhood Aggression and Violence

Author: David H. Crowell

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-08

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1468451707

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The conference on which this volume is based was one of a series of symposia initiated by the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on the theory and research surrounding topics of interest to the faculty and germane to the Hawaiian community. In order to encourage interaction around specific themes, the symposium series has assembled a small, select group of scholars to exchange knowledge, ideas, and enthusiasm with the resident faculty, students, and the community at large. The first two symposia concentrated on cross-cultural themes (Marsella, Tharp, & Ciborowski, 1979; Marsella, DeVos, & Hsu, 1985). The third one addressed a significant social problem: aggression and violence in children. At the time that our plan was being developed, Hawaii, along with mainland states, was experiencing or at least expressing widespread alarm over the involvement of children and youth in violent crime, in belligerence at school, as perpetrators of aggression at home, and as victims of physical abuse. This symposium was planned around a major area within the department, the Clinical Studies Program. The Clinical Studies Program has developed along two interrelated lines of concentration: one emphasized the foundation of clin cical psychology in basic science and the other expanded its purview into the broader community, covering prevention, systems change, and social networks.

Television
Television

Author: George Comstock

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 1999-04-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 008054231X

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Television: What's On, Who's Watching, and What It Means presents a comprehensive examination of the role of television in one's life. The emphasis is on data collected over the past two decades pointing to an increasing and in some instances a surprising influence of the medium. Television is not only watched but its messages are attended to and well understood. There is no shame in spending hours in front of the set, in fact, people over-estimate the time they spend viewing. Television advertising no longer persuades--it sells by creating a burst of emotional liking for the commercial. The emphases of television news determine not only what voters think about but also the presidential candidate they expect to support on election day. Children and teenagers who watch a great deal of television perform poorly on standardized achievement tests, and among the reasons are the usurpation of time spent learning to read and the discouragement of book reading. Television violence frightens some children and excites others, but its foremost effect is to increase aggressive behavior that sometimes spills over into seriously harmful antisocial behavior. - Incorporates social psychology, political science, sociology, child development, and the growing field of communications - Presents tables and graphs clarifying theories and linking sets of data - Paints concise portraits of the role of television in entertainment, politics, and child-rearing - Contains background for dozens of lectures and articles - Contains a comprehensive bibliography of more than 1000 citations, many recent

Television Violence
Television Violence

Author: P. T. Kelly

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781560727002

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If one culprit is suspected above all others for encouraging society to become more violent and unfeeling, it is television. This medium, which has become so pervasive in the last 50 years, seems to play an enormous role in the lives of the vast majority of people. But who controls the content which exerts such an enormous influence and to an extent controls the people? What are they doing now and what will they be doing tomorrow? Is violence essential to sell toothpaste and hamburgers? What are our children becoming and what will their children be like? Will every child carry a gun or other weapon just waiting for someone to trigger their violent nature and ignite their preprogrammed anger?

Public Communication and Behavior
Public Communication and Behavior

Author: George Comstock

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1483219313

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Public Communication and Behavior, Volume 1 covers the study of communicatory behavior that has a public or social character. The book discusses the evaluation of the models used to evaluate television series; the synthesis of 1043 effects of television on social behavior; and tv news, priming, and public evaluations of the president. The text also describes the myth of massive media impact; and the new technique for assessing the impact of mass media violence on real-world aggressive behavior. Social psychologists will find the book invaluable.

The Psychology of Television
The Psychology of Television

Author: John Condry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1351226762

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This volume addresses the content of television -- both programs and advertisements -- and the psychological effects of the content on the audience. The author not only reports new research, but explains its practical applications without jargon. Issues are discussed and described in terms of psychological mechanisms and causal routes of influence. While primarily referring to the American television industry and American governmental regulations, the psychological principles discussed are applicable to television viewers world wide.

Television and the American Family
Television and the American Family

Author: J. Alison Bryant

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1135663904

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This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television. Charting the dynamic developments of the American family and television over the past decade, this volume provides a comprehensive representation of programmatic research into family and television and examines extensively the uses families make of television, how extensions of television affect usage, families' evolving attitudes toward television, the ways families have been and are portrayed on television, the effects television has on families, and the ways in which families can mediate its impact on their lives. The volume is an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the areas of media and society, children and media, and family studies.

Handbook of Cross-cultural Psychology: Social behavior and applications
Handbook of Cross-cultural Psychology: Social behavior and applications

Author: John W. Berry

Publisher: John Berry

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9780205160761

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Presenting the human relations in a cultural context, this book explores various social psychology concepts and applied topics in the light of cross-cultural research. It also features the developments in the field as well as diversity in the cultural and theoretical backgrounds of the editors and chapter authors.

Children and Television
Children and Television

Author: Gordon L. Berry

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1993-05-25

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0803947003

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The main focus of this book is to identify the social and cultural impact of television on the psychosocial development of children growing up in a constantly changing multicultural society. The book analyzes major media organizations and projects policies, practices and research directions for the future.