Research Catalog

Title

Television and growing up: the impact of television violence; report to the Surgeon General.

Author

United States. Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior

Publication

Washington; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. [1972]

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Additional Authors

United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General

Description

ix, 279 p. illus.; 27 cm.

Subjects

• Government publications
• Television and children
• Child Development
• Social Behavior
• Television
• Violence
• Infant
• Adolescent

Genre/Form

Government publications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreward -- Preface -- Summary chapter: Findings and conclusion -- [Ch. 1.] Introduction -- [Ch. 2.] Violence in society and in the television medium -- [Ch. 3.] Some problems of research on the impact of television -- [Ch. 4.] Television content -- [Ch. 5.] Changing patterns of television use -- [Ch. 6.] Television violence in the world of children -- [Ch. 7.] Television and adolescent aggressiveness -- [Ch. 8.] Current knowledge and questions for future research -- [Ch. 9.] The unfinished agenda -- References -- Appendices: [A.] Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior -- Initial operations, June-October, 1969. [B.] Television and social behavior program reports and papers. [C.] Experiments on children's imitation of aggressive behavior. [D.] Experiments on disinhibition of aggressive behavior. [E.] The interpretation of correlation coefficients.

LCCN

^^^72600612^//r93

OCLC

• 2695291
• SCSB-10175510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library