Sesame Street Viewers as Adolescents: The Recontact Study

“G” is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 131-143

  Huston, Aletha C ^a,b   Anderson, Daniel R ^c   Wright, John C ^a   Linebarger, Deborah L ^d   Schmitt, Kelly L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Texas at   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410605252-17     Document Type: Chapter

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