TOPIC: Effects of Mass Media on Behavior
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Media, Violence & Behavior Effects
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Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions
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Association Between Television, Movie, And Video Game Exposure and School Performance
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The Changing Media Environment and its Impact on Socialization Processes in Families
- Children, adolescents and the media: what we know, what we don't know and what we need to find out (quickly!)
- Connection, Creativity and Drama: Teen Life on Social Media in 2022
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The Consequences of Social Media Use Across the Transition Into Adolescence: Body Image and Physical Activity
- Covid: the impact and role of mass media during the pandemic
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The effects of mass media on violent behavior
The effect of phubbing, a behavioral problem, on academic procrastination
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Hate on Social Media
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Health Effects of Media on Children and Adolescents
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How the Internet and Social Media Spread Hate
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How TV Affects Your Child
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The influence of mass media in creating identification models in adolescents
- Introducing positive media psychology to the field of children, adolescents, and media
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Mass media effects on youth sexual beahavior assessing the claim for causality
- Media/Marketing Influences on Adolescent and Young Adult Substance Abuse
- Preadolescents' Reliance on and Internalization of Media Appearance Ideals: Triggers and Consequences
- Mass media, social norms, and health promotion efforts
- Media Use in School-Aged Children and Adolescents
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Prospective Association between early Childhood Television Exposure and Academic, Psychosocial, and Physical Well-being by Middle Childhood
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Reality Check: How Reality Television Can Affect Youth and How a Media Literacy Curriculum Can Help
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The Remote, the Mouse, and the No.2 Pencil: The Household Media Environment and Academic Achievement Among Third Grade Students
- Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being
- Social media guidelines for mental health promotion and suicide prevention
- Saying no to Facebook: Uncovering motivations to resist or reject social media platforms
- Social media and teen anxiety
- Social Media and Youth Mental Health
- Types of social media use and stress in early adolescence
- Violence
in Audio-Visual Media: How Educators Can Respond
- What Role Does Social Media Use Play in the Youth Mental Health Crisis?
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What Kind of Adults Will Our Children Become? The Impact of Growing Up in a Media-Saturated World
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Youth Violence and Electronic Media: Similar Behaviors, Different Venues?
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