Influence of a Character-Based App on Children's Learning of Nutritional Information: Should Apps Be Served with a Side of Media Characters?
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DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2017.0116
Abstract: Abstract Objective: Childhood obesity is a health issue in the United States, associated with marketing practices in which media characters are often used to sell unhealthy products. This study examined exposure to a socially contingent… read more here.
Keywords: information; liking character; media characters; condition ... See more keywords
Detecting the Boundaries of Disposition Bias on Moral Judgments of Media Characters’ Behaviors using Social Judgment Theory
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DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqz021
Abstract: eople continuously morally judge the behaviors of media characters. This informs people’s dispositions toward characters. Their dispositions bias their subsequent moral judgments of behavior. Affective disposition theory (ADT) contends that limits to disposition bias exist,… read more here.
Keywords: theory; moral judgments; media characters; social judgment ... See more keywords