Building Meaningful Parasocial Relationships Between Toddlers and Media Characters to Teach Early Mathematical Skills

By Alice Ann Howard Gola, Melissa N. Richards, Alexis R. Lauricella, Sandra L. Calvert. 2013

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Subfields: Education, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Bradley J. Bond
2. Sandra L. Calvert
3. Riva H. Tukachinsky

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2. Sandra L. Calvert

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1. Bradley J. Bond
2. Sandra L. Calvert
3. Riva H. Tukachinsky
4. Gayle S. Stever

Citations in the corpus

• Theorizing Development of Parasocial Engagement (2018, background): “The “presence” of a character with whom people experience high PSR can facilitate learning and performance (Gardner & Knowles 2008; Gola et al., 2013).”
• A Model and Measure of US Parents' Perceptions of Young Children's Parasocial Relationships (2014, methodology): “…more imaginative nurturing behaviors (e.g., feeding the character, putting the character to bed, giving the character a bath) with the toy replica of DoDo over the 3-month period scored higher on the seriation task than the children who engaged in fewer nurturing behaviors (Gola et al., 2013).”