according to reports about 30-thousand people spent watching television had the impact on their memory and recall that the results showed no differences between men and women. the people who watched less than an hour a day did better at every memory function. as these contributors watched negative political ads, physiological responses indicated that their body was reflexively preparing to move...

. Canonical correltotion analysis identified two viewer types. The first viewer type--the one who used television out'of habit, to pass the time, and for entertainment--exhibited sizable levels of television viewing, af#inity (the importance of television in the life of the respondent) , and realism (how realistic the television portrayals were perceived to be). The second viewer type used tele...

background: excessive and uncontrolled television watching by children predisposes them to some risks such as developmental, social and psychological disorders. parents play an important role in nurturing their children and controlling the factors affecting their health. the aim of this study was to determine the impact of health education programs on parents' supervision skills to control thei...

Many young children have televisions in their bedrooms, which may influence the relationship between parental estimate and objective measures of child television usage/week. Parental estimates of child television time of eighty 4-7 year old children (6.0 +/- 1.2 years) at the 75th BMI percentile or greater (90.8 +/- 6.8 BMI percentile) were compared to an objective measure of television time ob...

portraying women in the media is one of the main social and cultural issues especially on television. television commercials as a genre have ideas about goods and services, but it constructs a secondary discourse about society, culture and gender roles along the way. the main goal of this paper is to examine women’s readings of gender roles representation in iranian television commercials from ...

BACKGROUND Sedentary activities, such as watching television, may disrupt habituation to food cues, thereby increasing motivation to eat and energy intake. OBJECTIVE These experiments were designed to examine the effect of television watching on habituation of ingestive behavior in children. DESIGN In experiment 1, all children worked for access to cheeseburgers in trials 1-7 (habituating s...