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Title: Davis


1
Davis Mares
  • Effects of talk show viewing on adolescents
    (1998)

2
Design
  • Non-random sample of 292 students from 2 public
    and 1 private high school in NC
  • Questionnaire
  • Attitudes toward social issues
  • Teen sex
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Teen runaways
  • Shows watched

3
Findings
  • 46 watched sometime or every day
  • Ricki Lake 41
  • Oprah 36
  • Montel 31
  • Statistical relationships
  • Most subjects overestimated the behaviors, but
    heavy viewers were more likely to do so
  • Trivialization of the issues did not take place

4
Interpretation
  • Blanket condemnation of talk shows is not
    warranted
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