Television & Behavior
Ten Years of Progress
Volume I & Volume II
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(1) television and health
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(2) violence and aggression
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(3) prosocial behavior
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(4) cognitive and affective aspects of viewing
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(5) the family and interpersonal relations
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(6) social beliefs and social behavior
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(7) Television's effects on American society
Findings of report
causal relationship between televised violence and later aggressive behavior
Television's
form & codes
Concept of arousal and its relationship to aggressive behavior.
Prosocial effects
One sentence summary
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Almost all
the evidence testifies to television's role as a formidable educator whose
effects are both persuasive and cumulative.
Research findings
Television and Behavior, Ten Years of Progress 1982
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(1) Focus Shifts
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(2) Moves from short term
direct effects to searching for long term indirect effects
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(3) Shift in paradigms from
cognitive approach to meaning
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(4)
TV is an educator
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