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educational and prosocial effects of television  

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  • Often, discussions of the effects of television on children focus solely on negative effects, such as the modeling of aggressive behavior, the persuasive power of advertising, and so on. Yet criticisms of television frequently refer only to television in general, and fail to distinguish among different types of television programs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Television, Educational and Prosocial Effects of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-L8M7SX36-V

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