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Peer reviewedCantor, Joanne; Omdahl, Becky – Communication Monographs, 1991
Explores whether exposure to televised fictional depictions of realistic life-threatening events (fires, drownings) affects children's risk-related assessments that could influence longer-term responses. Finds that children exposed to a particular threat rated similar events more likely to occur in their own lives, considered potential…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Emotional Response, Fear
Cantor, Joanne – 1998
This book addresses possible negative effects of children's viewing of inappropriate media content and how parents can respond. The discussion of children's responses to frightening mass media is based on the findings of controlled research but also includes real-life examples, many presented in a child's or parent's own words. Following an…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Children, Emotional Response, Fear
