Children's cartoons, often seen as innocent films about royalty and furry animals, are "rife with on-screen death and murder," a new study finds. The significant characters in kids' animated films ...

Study is in 'Criminal Justice Review' Lisa Kort-Butler says cartoons 'abandon ideals such as rehabilitation' Sociologist suggests parents encourage children to think beyond cartoons H oly hoodwink ...

Study finds junk-food marketing changes the tastes of kids as young as age 4. June 21, 2010— -- For generations now, the grocery store tantrum has marked a rite of passage for parents ...

CHICAGO — The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems ...

Shrek, Dora the Explorer, and other animated TV and movie stars beloved by children have been moonlighting as junk-food pitchmen in recent years. And they're good at it.

Violence More Realistic, Darker Than Cartoons Of The Past. Latest ... That's 6.3 incidents an hour — more than the PTC found in prime time aimed at adults during a 2002 study.

A new study argues that there's entirely too much adult content on animated programs watched by kids. ... The Cartoon Study. August 17, 2011 10:18 AM ET. Linda Holmes Enlarge this image.

A study published today in the medical journal Pediatrics has concluded that preschool-aged children who watch fast-paced TV cartoons performed significantly worse on executive function (like self ...

CHICAGO — The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems ...

Young children have difficulty learning immediately after watching fast-paced television cartoons full of images and activities that are not possible in real life, according to a new study. It's ...