A group of researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands report that college students watching American Pie 2 with random commercials, some advertising alcohol products, drank about 1 1/2 times more beers than those who watched 40 Days and 40 Nights, which was shown with commercials having little alcohol-related content.
Neither movie won an Academy Award, by the way.
In other news about television-related research, as you are probably acutely aware, pediatricians discourage parents from allowing children 2 and under to watch television programs. A new study seems to suggest that 2-year-old children suffer no cognitive deficits from TV viewing, no matter how much they watch -- or maybe it means that there is no difference between those children who watch TV a lot and those that only watch a little; they all suffer the same when it comes to cognitive development.
The children used in the study about cognitive development who watched TV more than 2 hours a day may suffer from an increased risk of developing asthma, however, according to another study.
And if the 2-year-olds were watching American Pie 2 ...
Posted by Bill at March 4, 2009 08:25 AMTelevision is bad! I'm ready to shitcan ours.
Posted by: KathyHowe at March 4, 2009 10:09 AM