The value of fame: Preadolescent perceptions of popular media and their relationship to future aspirations

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-326

  Uhls, Yalda T ^a   Greenfield, Patricia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fame; Media socialization; Preadolescent; Social networking sites; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84862999149     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026369     Document Type: Article

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