Advertising and consumer development

Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 149-182

  Jennings, Nancy A ^a   Wartella, Ellen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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