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Gadow, Kenneth D., and Joyce Sprafkin. "Television 'Violence' and Children with Emotional and
Behavioral Disorders." Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders, vol. 1, no. 1,
Jan. 1993, p. 54. Academic Search Complete, https://doi.org/10.1177/106342669300100108.
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Sender, Katherine. The Makeover : Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences. NYU Press,
2012. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfqh1.