Children need different kinds of comics at different developmental stages, from animal comics for early projective needs to invincible heroes for ego-inflation¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1953 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Normal children need various kinds of comics at different stages of development, with animal comics serving early projective needs and later invincible comic book heroes supplying objects for ego-inflation. → Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953

Evidence¶

Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953¶

Audio-Visual Communication Review. (1953). Audio-Visual Communication Review, p. 316 (digest of Spiegelman, Terwilliger & Fearing, The Journal of Social Psychology, 37:189-203, May 1953; and Wolf & Fiske, The Children Talk about Comics, in Communications Research 1948-1949, Harper and Brothers, 1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02713301

q2 · i? · qualitative · r1

Interview study with 104 children aged seven to seventeen, stratified by age, sex, and economic status, securing reports on comic book reading experience, motives, and effects; the digest reports this developmental interpretation without a statistic.

"Normal children need various kinds of comics at different stages of development with animal comics providing objects for their early projective needs, and later, invincible comic book heros supplying objects for ego-inflation."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Age and Developmental Stage — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

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