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Television and behavior : ten years of scientific progress and implications for the eighties.

Title
Television and behavior : ten years of scientific progress and implications for the eighties.
Publication
Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health : [Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. distributor], 1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Pearl, David, 1921-
  • Bouthilet, Lorraine.
  • Lazar, Joyce B.
  • United States. Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior.
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Description
2 volumes; 27 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
DHHS publication ; no. (ADM) 82-1195- (ADM) 82-1196
Uniform Title
DHHS publication ; no. (ADM) 82-1195- (ADM) 82-1196.
Subject
  • Television and children > United States
  • Television programs > United States > Psychological aspects
  • Child development
  • Violence
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Social psychology
  • Television
  • Television broadcasting
  • Child Development
  • Social Behavior
  • Television
  • Violence
  • Child
  • Infant
  • Psychology, Social
  • television (telecommunication system)
  • violence
  • children (people by age group)
  • infants
  • social psychology
  • Television broadcasting
  • Social psychology
  • Infants
  • Children
  • Child development
  • Television and children
  • Television programs > Psychological aspects
  • United States
Genre/Form
Government publications – United States.
Note
  • "An update and elaboration of information presented in the 1972 report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Television and Behavior"--V. 1, p. iii.
  • S/N 017-024-01129-1 (v. 1).
  • S/N 017-024-01141-0 (v. 2).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
v. 1 Summary report -- v. 2 Technical reviews / edited by David Pearl, Lorraine Bouthilet, and Joyce Lazar.
LCCN
82600539
OCLC
  • ocm08416708
  • 8416708
  • SCSB-1220894
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library