Reducing Children's Emotional Reactions to Mass Media through Rehearsed Explanation and Exposure to a Replica of a Fear Object.

Wilson, Barbara J.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Reducing Children's Emotional Reactions to Mass Media through Rehearsed Explanation and Exposure to a Replica of a Fear Object.

Wilson, Barbara J.

Human Communication Research, v14 n1 p3-26 Fall 1987

Reports on a study conducted to assess the effectiveness of two strategies, both involving desensitization, for reducing grade-school children's emotional reactions to mass media. Finds that while both strategies reduced emotional reactions, only the rehearsed explanation altered children's conceptions of the dangerous object. (SR)

Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Desensitization, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Fear, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, Psychological Studies

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