@article{ref1,
title="The implicit assumptions of television research: an analysis of the 1982 NIMH report on television and behavior",
journal="Public opinion quarterly",
year="1983",
author="Cook, T. D. and Kendzierski, D. A. and Thomas, S. V.",
volume="47",
number="2",
pages="161-201",
abstract="The authors analyze some of the assumptions underlying most current research on television. They emphasize the dependence on (1) an individual rather than an institutional level of analysis; (2) a model of research utilization that pays little explicit attention to where sources of leverage lie for changes in programming; (3) extremely simple models of the selection processes associated with different levels of television viewing; and (4) uncritical appraisals of the consequences of effects that many would call small or modest. These issues are illustrated by a general discussion of the NIMH report on Television and Behavior and specific discussion of &quot;mainstreaming&quot; and the effects of television violence. In 1972, POQ's editors invited Leo Bogart to prepare an extended review article of the Surgeon-General's Study of Television and Social Behavior (POQ 36:491-521). When the 10-year follow-up study was released by NIMH in 1982, the editors asked Thomas D. Cook, a distinguished psychologist noted for his research on television, to perform the same function.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-362X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}