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- Title
Television Exposure and Children's Decoding of Nonverbal Behavior.
- Authors
Feldman, Robert S.; Coats, Erik J.; Spielman, Darren A.
- Abstract
Two studies considered the way in which the magnitude of exposure to television relates to children's understanding and interpretation of others' nonverbal behavior. In the first study, 6th graders made judgments regarding other children whose nonverbal facial behavior did not match their internal emotional state. Results showed that heavier television viewers held a less differentiated, more simplistic view of the consequences of nonverbal self-presentation strategies. In the second study, children in Grades 2 through 6 made judgments of others' nonverbal expressions of emotion. As predicted, heavier television viewers were better at decoding others' nonverbal expressions than lighter viewers, presumably because of their greater exposure to nonverbal displays of emotion on television. In addition, nonverbal decoding skills improved with age.
- Subjects
TELEVISION &; children; EMOTIONS in children; NONVERBAL communication; EMOTIONS; BEHAVIOR; TELEVISION; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1996, Vol 26, Issue 19, p1718
- ISSN
0021-9029
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb00094.x