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Effects of TV ad violence, Super Bowl implications on kids (w/ Video)

The Super Bowl annually produces the year's largest TV audience, making it a prime event for advertisers to debut their flashy, new commercials. But ads with violent content aired during a sporting event that also contains ...

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created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intervention reduces children's viewing of violent TV

A team of Oregon State University researchers has successfully implemented a classroom-based intervention that reduces the amount of violent TV that children watch.

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created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Two cities, one vast gap in child obesity

Doris Chang limits her three sons' intake of sweets and doesn't feed them any processed or frozen food. At their Manhattan Beach, Calif., home, she monitors the boys' time in front of the television and keeps them busy with ...

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created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Profanity in TV and video games linked to teen aggression

While it's been long established that watching violent scenes increases aggression levels, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics suggests that profanity in the media may have a similar effect. Pediatrics is the to ...

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created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human development experts recommend tuning in to family, not devices

Combined with increasingly hectic work, school and extracurricular schedules, the advent of wireless technology has led to less quality time between parents and children. University of Missouri human development specialists ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US scientists testing earthquake early warning

Elizabeth Cochran was sitting in her office when her computer suddenly sounded an alarm.

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created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Advertising in violent video games results in poor recall, negative brand perception

Embedding advertisements in violent video games leads to lower brand recall and negative brand attitudes suggesting advertisers should think twice about including such ads in a media campaign, according to researchers at ...

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created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Taxpayer film subsidies promote youth smoking

State governments, including California as well as others in Canada and the United Kingdom, pour hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into major motion pictures that depict smoking -- leading to thousands of new teen ...

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created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stanford economist predicts 'large, short-run recession'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Friday's Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating topped a week that saw all three major stock market indexes delivering their worst performances since the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

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created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

How media can encourage our better side

(Medical Xpress) -- Violent media -- films, TV, videogames -- can encourage aggression, and lots of research says so. But psychologists haven't spent as much time looking at the ways media with more socially positive content ...

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created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Next gen video games let players control the story

Menacing alien machines descend on Earth, and amid all-out war, a soldier searches a building to find a frightened boy hiding in a vent.

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created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 12

Violence doesn't add to children's enjoyment of TV shows, movies: study

Despite growing concern about the effects of media violence on children, violent television shows and movies continue to be produced and marketed to them. An Indiana University research study concludes that violence doesn't ...

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created May 24, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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