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Protecting children from advertising |
Consumerism
APA task force recommendations Print version: page 59
APA's Task Force on Advertising and Children proposed the following research and policy recommendations--which have now been adopted as APA policy--to help counter the potential negative effects of ads aimed at children:
* Restrict television advertising as well as advertising in the schools directed to children 8 years old and younger.
* Use advertising disclaimers for children's programs in language that children can easily understand.
* Research what is new and what is different in advertising targeted to children and teens.
* Investigate how advertising in new interactive media environments, such as the Internet, influences children.
* Study the persuasive intent of television advertising targeted to children older than 8.
* Examine whether understanding advertising's persuasive intent and its effects differ among genders, races, ethnicities and cultures.
* Develop curriculum for different grade levels to help children understand advertising.
* Educate parents and professionals who work with children and youth on the effects of advertising.
* Support continuing-education programs for psychologists on media literacy, in particular on media advertising and marketing to children.
* Weigh the ethical implications of using psychological research to effectively promote products to children.
* Encourage more rigorous industry self-regulation, such as publicizing to parents guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
* Investigate the impact of advertising and commercialism in the schools.
* Collaborate with other professional and educational organizations to raise public, professional and political awareness of the increased commercialization of schools.
--M. DITTMANN
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