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Children's Understanding of the Nature of Television Characters
dc.contributor.authorQuarfoth, Joanne M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T20:39:25Z
dc.date.available2010-06-01T20:39:25Z
dc.date.issued1979-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationQuarfoth, Joanne M. (1979). "Children's Understanding of the Nature of Television Characters." Journal of Communication 29(3): 210-218. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73762>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-9916en_US
dc.identifier.issn1460-2466en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/73762
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights1979 by the Journal of Communicationen_US
dc.titleChildren's Understanding of the Nature of Television Charactersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelCommunicationsen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumA Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. This study was conceived as part of a larger project on children's attention to and retention of television commercial content that was funded by General Mills Corporation. The author wishes to thank Harold Stevenson for his advice on research design, and to thank Linda Hatt, Laurie Koltes, and Eileen Quarfoth for their help in data collection. Appreciation is also expressed to the principal, staff, and kindergarten and first-grade children of St. Columba School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and to the leaders and members of several Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for their participation in the study.en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73762/1/j.1460-2466.1979.tb01734.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1460-2466.1979.tb01734.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Communicationen_US
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