Television alcohol advertising: Do children really mean what they say?

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-104

  Nash, Avril S ^a   Pine, Karen J ^a   Messer, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; AGE; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; TELEVISION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOFTWARE; TELEVISION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67650326629     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151008X349470     Document Type: Article

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