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Parents need as much guidance as their kids do. Says UCLA psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield: "Parents tend to opt out after Sesame Street. They don't research what the good programs are." Notes Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "For children, television is a window to the world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans...
...success." He might have a receptive audience in Winnetka, Illinois, where members of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood became so concerned over the pervasive negative influence of the Power Rangers that they organized a TV Tune-Out week last winter. Says Winnetka developmental psychologist Jeanne Beckman: "If parents would sit down and watch that program from beginning to end, they would be shocked at what they...
Later these hormones play a housekeeping role in the growth and maintenance of brain cells in both sexes. (In boys some testosterone is converted to estrogen in the brain.) When estrogen is in short supply, memory and thought processes can suffer. Psychologist Barbara Sherwin at Montreal's McGill University has studied the effects of estrogen therapy on women who have had their ovaries removed and thus produce very little estrogen of their own. She found that women who were given injections of estrogen were better at learning and recalling pairs of words than those given a placebo. The effect...
...arrest on April 26 of Masami Tsuchiya, 30, a doctoral student in organic chemistry who police said led the effort to make sarin. Charged initially with the minor crime of helping other Aum members evade arrest, he was extensively questioned about the sarin attack. In consultation with a psychologist, police found they were able to break Tsuchiya quickly, despite his reputation as a hard-core Aum member. Shoko Egawa, an expert on the cult, offered an explanation: "The best-educated members were really prized by Asahara and did not go through the same indoctrination that the others did. Once someone...
Though producers treat these shows as mere entertainment, many viewers do not. A study involving 187 students conducted by communication professor Glenn Sparks of Purdue University found that exposure to such programs heightened belief in the paranormal. And when that exposure is constant, says University of Oregon psychologist Ray Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech...