Searching for Cognitive Processes in the Cultivation Effect: Adult and Adolescent Samples in the United States and Australia.

Hawkins, Robert P.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ385208

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Publication Date: 1987

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Searching for Cognitive Processes in the Cultivation Effect: Adult and Adolescent Samples in the United States and Australia.

Hawkins, Robert P.; And Others

Human Communication Research, v13 n4 p553-77 Sum 1987

Investigates the cultivation hypothesis by testing two cognitive processes hypothesized to allow viewers to construct television-biased beliefs. Finds the basic cultivation result replicated, but neither process hypothesis was supported. (SR)

Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects, Television, Television Research, Television Viewing

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia; United States

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