Positive Effects of Television on Children's Social Interactions: A Meta-Analysis

By Marie-Louise Mares, Emory H. Woodard. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Education

1. Silvia Osswald
2. Holly D. Wright
3. Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter
4. Shawna R. White
5. Tobias Greitemeyer
6. Catalina L. Toma
7. Eric E. Rasmussen
8. M. Colwell

In Gender Studies

1. Tobias Greitemeyer
2. Catalina L. Toma

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1. Silvia Osswald
2. Tobias Greitemeyer
3. Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter
4. Catalina L. Toma
5. Rebecca L. Densley

Citations in the corpus

• Prosocial video games reduce aggressive cognitions (2009, background): “…showing positive effects of prosocial video games (Gentile et al., in press; Greitemeyer & Osswald, in press), of television with prosocial content (Mares & Woodard, 2005) and of songs with pro- social lyrics (Greitemeyer (2009, in press)) on prosocial tendencies, it indeed appears that media…”
• Relation between active mediation, exposure to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and US preschoolers’ social and emotional development (2016, background): “Despite these findings, the authors caution that due to the relative paucity of research on prosocial effects, researchers still have little sense of the effects of prosocial television viewed in the home and about how to make prosocial programming effective (Mares & Woodard, 2005).”
• Feeling Better But Doing Worse: Effects of Facebook Self-Presentation on Implicit Self-Esteem and Cognitive Task Performance (2013, background): “…and magazine content on a range of perceptual and behavioral outcomes, such as self-esteem (Rivadeneyra, Ward, & Gordon, 2007), cognitive task performance (Appel, 2011; Reinecke, Klatt, & Krämer, 2011), stereotyping, aggression, and altruistic behaviors (see Mares & Woodard, 2005, for a review).”
• Effects of songs with prosocial lyrics on prosocial thoughts, affect, and behavior. (2009, unknown): “This has led to the suggestion that media exposure could be an important determinant of pro-(Mares & Woodard, 2005) and antisocial behavior (Robinson, Wilde, Navracruz, Haydel, & Varady, 2001).”
• Effects of Prosocial Media on Social Behavior (2011, background): “Some early research has documented that television with prosocial content reduces aggression and increases altruism in children (for a review, see Mares & Woodard, 2005).”