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Improving children's understanding of television violence may lessen its impacts more effectively than trying to change their viewing habits. Researchers Sharon and Larry Rosenkoetter at Oregon State University are developing a TV literacy program for children in the early grades that helps

them critically analyze what they are seeing on television so that they can make wiser viewing choices. The researchers turned kids into "television detectives" assigned to identify appropriate and inappropriate activities and logical and illogical consequences in TV programs. For example, when a cartoon character falls off a 20-story building and bounces right back up again, the kids shout, "That's bogus!" After the first year of the program, the Rosenkoetters found that girls dramatically reduced their viewing of violent programming after the TV literacy lessons. Boys still watched violence-packed programs, but their reported violence and aggression dropped significantly.

Source: Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331. Web site www.oregonstate.edu.

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