How Children Reacted to Televised Coverage of the Space Shuttle Disaster

John C. Wright; Dale L Kunkel; Marites Pinon; Aletha C. Huston

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1989.tb01027.x

How Children Reacted to Televised Coverage of the Space Shuttle Disaster

John C. Wright, Dale L Kunkel, Marites Pinon, Aletha C. Huston

Communication

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Overall, boys and girls tended to react according to gender stereotypes of impersonal regret versus personal involvement, but the strongest relations were for the two patterns themselves, with either a cognitive or affective response dominating.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	27-45
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Communication
Volume	39
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1989.tb01027.x
State	Published - Jun 1989

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