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Peer reviewedMares, Marie-Louise – Human Communication Research, 1996
Examines whether errors in memory (specifically source confusions) contribute to the link between television viewing and social reality judgments. Finds that a manipulation of the visual similarity of the news and fictional programming affected subjects' tendency to make source confusions. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Memory
Peer reviewedReeves, Byron; Garramone, Gina M. – Human Communication Research, 1983
Tested the idea that exposure to television people could affect children's judgments of a real person introduced after watching television. Found that television can prime traits and provide a frame of reference for use in encoding new information about people. (PD)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Mass Media Effects, Memory
