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J L Singer

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Family television viewing habits and the spontaneous play of preschool children.

In the course of an experimental study of effects of television on imagination and emotion in nursery school children, interviews and questionnaire responses concerning viewing habits were obtained from 70 parents. Group consultations were initiated to help parents understand television's impact on children and to develop methods for controlling family viewing patterns.

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Daydream patterns and self-awareness in psychiatric patients.

This study investigates the daydream activity of psychiatric patients as measured by the standard retrospective questionnaire vs. a more immediate measure. It also compares the responses of psychiatric patients vs. college students to a daydreaming inventory. Factor analytic and correlative results show considerable consistency between the retrospective and more immediate measures of daydreaming. Psychiatric patients were observed to have less positive and less vivid daydreams than college students, with greater emphasis on fears of failure.

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