PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCES
OF TELEVISION ON CHILDREN
(CRITC)
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
ALETHA C. HUSTON, DIRECTOR
CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCES
OF TELEVISION ON CHILDREN
(CRITC)
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
ALETHA C. HUSTON, DIRECTOR
General Reviews
Huston, A. C., Donnerstein, E., Fairchild, H., Feshbach, N. D., Katz, P. A., Murray, J. P., Rubinstein, E. A., Wilcox, B. L., & Zuckerman, D. (1992). Big world, small screen: The role of television in American society. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Huston, A.C., Bickham, D. S., Lee, J. H., & Wright, J. C. (2007). From attention to comprehension: How children watch and learn from television (pp. 41-64). In N. Pecora, J. Murray, & E. A. Wartella (Eds.), Children and television: Fifty years of research. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2004 02 - Wartella, E., Caplovitz, A.G., & Lee, J.H. (2004). From Baby Einstein to Leapfrog, From Doom to the Sims, From Instant Messaging to Internet Chat Rooms: Public Interest in the Role of Interactive Media in Children's Lives. Social Policy Report of the Society for Research in Child Development, 18 (4), 3-19.
1997 02 - Huston, A.C. & Wright, J.C. (1997). Mass media and children's development. In W. Damon, I. Sigel, & K.A.Renninger (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 4. Child psychology in practice (5th ed., pp.999-1058). New York: Wiley.
1996 02 - Huston, A.C., & Wright, J. C. (1996). Television and socialization of young children. In T. MacBeth (Ed.), Tuning in to young viewers (pp.37-60). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
1989 04 - Huston, A. C., Watkins, B. A., & Kunkel, D. (1989). Public policy and children's television. American Psychologist, 44, 424 433.
1987 05 - Huston, A. C. (1987). Television and human behavior. In F. Farley & C. N. Null (Eds.). Using psychological science: Making the public case (pp. 131 142). Washington D.C.: Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences.
Media Use and Behavior.
Sub 01 Lee, J. H., Bickham, D. S., Vandewater, E. A., Huston, A. C. (2005). Children's Electronic Media Use and Academic Skills, Unpublished manuscript.
2005 03- Vandewater, E.A., Lee, J.H., and Shim, M-S. (2005). Family Conflict and Violent Electronic-Media Use in School-Aged Children. Media Psychology 7:1, 73-86.
2005 02 - Vandewater, E.A., Park, S. E., Huang, X., Wartella, E.A. (2005). "No - You Can't Watch That": Parental Rules & Young Children's Media Use. American Behavioral Scientist, 48:5, 608-623.
2005 01 - Vandewater, E.A., Bickham, D.S., Lee, J.H., Cummings, H.M., Wartella, E.A., Rideout, V.J. (2005). When the Television is Always On: Heavy Television Exposure & Young Children's Development. American Behavioral Scientist, 48:5, 562-577.
2004 01 - Vandewater, E. A., Shim, M., Caplovitz, A. C. (2004). Linking Obesity and Activity Level with Children's Television and Video Game Use. Journal of Adolescence, 27, 71-85.
Children's Media Use - Patterns and Influences
2003 01 - Bickham, D. S., Vandewater, E. A., Huston, A. C., Lee, J. H., Caplovitz, A. G., & Wright, J. C. (2003). Predictors of Children's Media Use: An Examination of Three Ethnic Groups. Media Psychology 5, 107-137.
2001 05 - Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Vandewater, E., Bickham, D. S., Scantlin, R. M., Kotler, J. A., Caplovitz, A. G., & Lee, J. (2001). American Children's Use of Electronic Media in 1997: A National Survey. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 22, 31-47.
2001 04 - Kotler, J.A., Wright, J.C., & Huston, A.C. (2001). Television use in families with children. In J. Bryant & A. Bryant (Eds.). Television and the American Family, 2nd edition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 33-48.
1999 01 - Huston, A.C., Wright, J.C., Marquis, J., & Green, S.B. (1999). How young children spend their time: Television & other activities. Developmental Psychology, 35: 4, 912-925.
1996 01 - Truglio, R.T., Murphy, K.C.,Oppenheimer, S.,Huston, A.C., & Wright, J.C. (1996). Predictors of children's entertainment television viewing: Why are they tuning in? Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 17, 474-494.
1991 02 - St. Peters, M., Fitch, M., Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., & Eakins, D. J. (1991). Television and families: What do young children watch with their parents? Child Development, 62, 1409 1423.
1990 04 - Rosenkoetter, L. I., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1990). Television and the moral judgment of the young child. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 11, 123 137.
1990 03 - Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., Rice, M. L., Kerkman, D., & St. Peters, M. (1990). The development of television viewing patterns in early childhood: A longitudinal investigation. Developmental Psychology, 26, 409 420.
1989 02 - Pinon, M., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1989). Family ecology and child characteristics that predict young children's educational television viewing. Child Development, 60, 846 856.
1987 03 - Lemish, D. (1987). Viewers in diapers: The early development of television viewing. In T. R. Lindlof (Ed.). Natural audiences: Qualitative research of media uses and effects (pp. 33 57). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Educational Media
2004 03 - Vandewater, E.A., & Bickham, D.S. (2004). The impact of educational television on young children's reading in the context of family stress. Applied Developmental Psychology 25, 717-728.
2003 02 - Lee, J. H., Huston, A.C. (2003). Educational Televisual Media Effects. In E.L. Palmer & B. M. Young (Eds.), The Faces of Televisual Media: Teaching, Violence, Selling to Children (2nd ed, pp. 83-106). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Anderson, D.R., Huston, A.C., Schmitt, K.L., Linebarger, D.L., & Wright, J. C. (2001). Early childhood television viewing and adolescent achievement acheivement: The Recontact Study. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 66, Serial No. 264.
2001 07 - Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Murphy, K. C., St Peters, M., Piñon, M., Scantlin, R., & Kotler, J. (2001). The relations of early television viewing to school readiness and vocabulary of children from low-income families: The Early Window Project. Child Development 72, 1347-1366.
2001 06 - Bickham, D. S., Wright, J. C., & Huston, A. C. (2001). Attention, comprehension, and the educational influences of television. In D. Singer & J. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of Children and the Media. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 101-120.
2001 03 - Huston, A.C., Anderson, D.R., Wright, J.C., Linebarger, D.L., and Schmitt, K.L. (2001). Sesame Street viewers as adolescents: The Recontact Study. In S. Fisch and R. Truglio (Eds.). "G" is for "Growing": Thirty years of research on Sesame Street. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 131-143.
2001 02 - Wright, J.C., Huston, A.C., Scantlin, R.M., and Kotler, J.A. (2001). The Early Window project: Sesame Street prepares children for school. In S. Fisch and R. Truglio (Eds.). "G" is for "Growing": Thirty years of research on Sesame Street. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 97-114.
1998 03 - Huston, A.C. & Wright, J.C. (1998). Television & the informational & educational needs of children. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 557, 9-23.
1994 02 - Huston, A. C. & Wright, J. C. (1994). Educating children with television: The forms of the medium. In D. Zillmann, J. Bryant, & A. C. Huston (Eds.), Media, children, and the family: Social scientific, psychodynamic, and clinical perspectives (pp.73 84). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
1990 05 - Wright, J.C., St. Peters, M., Huston, A.C. (1990). Family television use and its relation to children's cognitive skills & social behavior. In J. Bryant's (ed.) Television & the American Family. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 227-251.
1990 02 - Rice, M. L., Huston, A. C., Truglio, R. T., & Wright, J. C. (1990). Words from Sesame Street: Learning vocabulary while viewing. Developmental Psychology, 26, 421 428.
1988 01 - Rice, M.L., Woodsmall, L (1988). Lessons from television: Children's word learning when viewing. Child Development, 59, 420-429.
1983 02 - Rice, M. L. (1983). The role of television in children's language acquisition. Developmental Review, 3, 211 224.
Television Fiction and Reality
1997 01 - Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., Fitch, M., Wroblewski, R., & Piemyat, S. (1997). Effects of documentary and fictional television formats on children's acquisition of schemata for unfamiliar occupations. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 18, 563-585.
1996 03 - Kerkman, D., Pinon, M., Wright, J.C., & Huston, A.C. (1996). Children's reasoning about video and real balance scale problems. Early Education and Development, 7, 237-252.
1995 02 - Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Truglio, R., Fitch, M., Smith, E. D., & Piemyat, S. (1995) Occupational portrayals on television: Children's role schemata, career aspirations, and perceptions of reality. Child Development, 66, 1706-1718.
1995 01 - Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Alvarez, M., Truglio, R., Fitch, M., & Piemyat, S. (1995). Perceived television reality and children's emotional and cognitive responses to its social content. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 16, 231 251.
1994 01 - Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Reitz, A. L., & Piemyat, S. (1994). Young children's perceptions of television reality: determinants and developmental differences. Developmental Psychology, 30, 229 239.
1987 06 - Wroblewski, R., & Huston, A. C. (1987). Televised occupational stereotypes and their effects on early adolescents: Are they changing? Journal of Early Adolescence, 7, 283 297.
1989 03 - Wright, J. C., Kunkel, D., Pinon, M., & Huston, A. C. (1989). How children reacted to televised coverage of the space shuttle disaster. Journal of Communication, 39 (2), 27 45.
Media Violence
1995 04 - Gusewelle, C.W., Acheson, E., Dark, O.C., Kopel, D.B., Murray, J.P., Wright, J.C. (1995). Round table discussion: Violence in the media. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, v. 4, n. 3.
1995 03 - Wright, J. C. (1995). Child viewers, television violence, and the first amendment. The Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, 4, 33 38.
1978 01 - Huston-Stein, A. (1978). Televised Agression & Prosocial Behavior. In H.L. Pick, etc. (Eds.) Psychology: From research to practice. NY: Plenum.
1986 03 - Friedrich Cofer, L., & Huston, A. C. (1986). Television violence and aggression: The debate continues. Psychological Bulletin, 100, 364 371.
Advertising
1984 01 - Ross, R. P., Campbell, R., Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Rice, M. L., & Turk, P. (1984). When celebrities talk, children listen: An experimental analysis of children's responses to TV ads with celebrity endorsement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 5, 185 202.
1981 04 - Ross, R. P., Campbell, T., Huston Stein, A., & Wright, J. C. (1981). Nutritional misinformation of children: A developmental and experimental analysis of the effects of televised food commercials. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1, 329 345.
Formal Features of Media
1993 01 - Fitch, M., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1993). From television forms to genre schemata: Children's perceptions of television reality. In G. L. Berry & J. K. Asamen (Eds.), Children and Television: Images in a Changing Sociocultural World (pp. 38 52). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
1992 01 - Rolandelli, D.R., Sugihara, K., Wright, J.C. (1992). Visual processing of televised information by Japanese & American children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,. 23, 5-24.
1991 01 - Rolandelli, D. R., Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., & Eakins, D. (1991). Children's auditory and visual processing of narrated and nonnarrated television programming. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 51, 90 122.
1990 01 - Kerkman, D., Kunkel, D., Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., & Pinon, M. F. (1990). Children's television programming and the "free market solution". Journalism Quarterly, 67 (1), 147 156.
1989 05 - Rolandelli, D.R. (1989). Children & Television: The Visual Superiority Effect Reconsidered. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, v. 33, n. 1, 69-81.
1988 02 - Kerkman, D.D., & Wright, J.C. (1988). A "misrepresentation" of method as theory. Developmental Review 8, 268-375.
1989 01 - Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1989). The forms of television and the child viewer. In G. A. Comstock (Ed.), Public Communication and Behavior: Vol. 2 (103 158). New York: Academic Press.
1988 03 - Kerkman, D., & Wright, J. C. (1988). An exegesis of two theories of compensation development: Sequential decision theory and information integration theory. Developmental Review, 8, 323 360.
1988 02 - Alvarez, M., Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., & Kerkman, D. (1988). Gender differences in visual attention to television form and content. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 9, 459 475.
1987 04 - Calvert, S. L., & Huston, A. C. (1987). Television and children's gender schemata. In L. Liben & M. Signorella (Eds.), New directions in child development: Vol. 38. Children's gender schemata: Origins and implications (pp. 75-88). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
1987 02 - Campbell, T. A., Wright, J. C., & Huston, A. C. (1987). Form cues and content difficulty as determinants of children's cognitive processing of televised educational messages. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 43, 311 327.
1987 01 - Calvert, S. L., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1987). Effects of television preplay formats on children's attention and story comprehension. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 8, 329 342.
1986 05 - Canino, G. J. & Huston, A. C. (1986). A content analysis of prime time TV and radio news in Puerto Rico. Journalism Quarterly, 63, 150 154.
1986 04 - Lemish, D., & Rice, M. L. (1986). Television as a talking picture book: A prop for language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 13, 251 274.
1986 02 - Rice, M. L., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1986). Replays as repetitions: Young children's interpretations of television forms. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 7, 61 76.
1986 01 - Potts, R., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C.(1986). The effects of television form and violent content on boys' attention and social behavior. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 41, 1 17.
1984 05 - Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1984). The educational impact of television forms and formats. Media International, Educational, 4, 12 16.
1984 04 - Rice, M. L. (1984). The words of children's television. Journal of Broadcasting, 28(4), 445 461.
1984 03 - Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Ross, R. P., Calvert, S. L., Rolandelli, D., Weeks, L. A., Raeissi, P., & Potts, R. (1984). Pace and continuity of television programs: Effects on children's attention and comprehension. Developmental Psychology, 20, 653 666.
1984 02 - Huston, A. C., Greer, D., Wright, J. C., Welch, R., & Ross, R. (1984). Children's comprehension of televised formal features with masculine and feminine connotations. Developmental Psychology, 20, 707 716.
1983 04 - Center for Research on the Influences of Television on Children (1983). CRITC Program Categorization System Coding Manual. Lawrence: University of Kansas.
1983 03 - Wright, J. C., & Huston, A. C. (1983). A matter of form: Potentials of television for young viewers. American Psychologist, 38, 835 843
1983 01 - Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1983). Children's processing of television: The informative functions of formal features. In J. Bryant & D. R. Anderson (Eds.), Children's understanding of TV: Research on attention and comprehension (pp. 37 68). New York: Academic Press.
1982 04 - Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., & Potts, R. (1982). Television forms and children's social behavior. Fernsehen and Bildung, 16, 128 138.
1982 03 - Rice, M. L., Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1982). The forms of television: Effects on children's attention, comprehension, and social behavior. In D. Pearl, L. Bouthilet, & J. B. Lazar (Eds.), Television and behavior: Vol. 2. Ten years of scientific progress and implications for the 80's (pp. 24 38). Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office.
1982 02 - Calvert, S. L., Huston, A., Watkins, B. A., & Wright, J. C. (1982). The relation between selective attention to television forms and children's comprehension of content. Child Development, 53, 601 610.
1982 01 - Greer, D., Potts, R., Wright, J. C., & Huston Stein, A. (1982). The effects of television commercial form and commercial placement on children's attention and social behavior. Child Development, 53, 611 619.
1981 07 - Wright, J. C., & Huston, A. C. (1981). Children's understanding of the forms of television. In H. Kelly & H. Gardner (Eds.), New directions for child development: Vol. 13. Viewing children through television (pp. 73-88). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
1981 06 - Rice, M. L., & Wartella, E. (1981). Television as a medium of communication: Implications for how to regard the child viewer. Journal of Broadcasting, 25, 365 372.
1981 05 - Watkins, B. A., Huston Stein, A., & Wright, J. C. (1981). Effects of planned television programming. In E. L. Palmer & A. Dorr (Eds.), Children and the faces of television: Teaching, violence,and selling (pp. 49 69). New York: Academic Press.
1981 03 - Watkins, B., Calvert, S., Huston Stein, A., & Wright, J. C. (1980). Children's recall of television material: Effects of presentation mode and adult labeling. Developmental Psychology, 16, 672 674.
1981 02 - Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., Wartella, E., Rice, M. L., Watkins, B. A., Campbell, T., Potts, R. (1981). Communicating more than content: Formal features of children's television programs. Journal of Communication, 31, (3), 32 48.
1981 01 - Huston-Stein, A., Fox, S., Greer, D., Watkins, B.A., & Whitaker, J. (1981). The effects of TV action and violence on children's social behavior. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 138, 183-191.
1979 02 - Welch, R., Huston Stein, A., Wright, J. C., & Plehal, R. (1979). Subtle sex role cues in children's commercials. Journal of Communication, 29, 202 209.
1979 01 - Huston Stein, A. & Wright, J. C. (1979). Children and Television: Effects of the medium, its contents, and its form. Journal of Research and Development in Education, 13, 20 31.