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How children reacted to televised coverage of the space shuttle disaster.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1989Description: 19 p. : illSubject: The Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy presented an opportunity to investigate children's emotional reactions to televised news coverage in a situation where strong, direct effects might be expected. The study was designed to explore the nature and extent of children's self-reported affective and cognitive reactions to the shuttle disaster and what that might tell reveal about both the impact of seeing an unexpected dramatic and violent real-life event and potential differential understanding of the event among boys and girls of different ages.
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Jt. authors: Dale Kinkel, Marites Pinon and Aletha C. Huston

Reprinted from Journal of Communication; Vol. 39., No. 2., Spring 1989, p. 27-45

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The Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy presented an opportunity to investigate children's emotional reactions to televised news coverage in a situation where strong, direct effects might be expected. The study was designed to explore the nature and extent of children's self-reported affective and cognitive reactions to the shuttle disaster and what that might tell reveal about both the impact of seeing an unexpected dramatic and violent real-life event and potential differential understanding of the event among boys and girls of different ages.

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