Davis

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Davis Mares

• Effects of talk show viewing on adolescents
  (1998)

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Design

• Non-random sample of 292 students from 2 public
  and 1 private high school in NC
• Questionnaire
• Attitudes toward social issues
• Teen sex
• Teen pregnancy
• Teen runaways
• Shows watched

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Findings

• 46 watched sometime or every day
• Ricki Lake 41
• Oprah 36
• Montel 31
• Statistical relationships
• Most subjects overestimated the behaviors, but
  heavy viewers were more likely to do so
• Trivialization of the issues did not take place

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Interpretation

• Blanket condemnation of talk shows is not
  warranted