Collins W Andrew
Institute of Child Development.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1978 Apr;48(2):198-204. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1978.tb01308.x.
Recent studies are reviewed that suggest that preschool and young grade-school children often have incomplete or distorted impressions of social portrayals on television. It is suggested that cognitive-processing factors in understanding television dramas may put these younger viewers at special risk for deleterious effects of television viewing.