Researchers monitored more than 100 4-6-year-olds Complex ideas presented on television proved difficult for them to comprehend Children’s television programming often contains moral lessons and ...

Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

This video explores seven strange monsters from medieval belief. Creatures filled the margins of maps and manuscripts. They explained distant lands no one had seen. Religion and folklore shaped their ...

Movies for kids and teens aren’t only designed to entertain. They can also be imbued with messages about what’s right and wrong, what actions make a hero or villain, and how to navigate moral dilemmas ...

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

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Do the pictures and images in the news affect the moral judgments people make about what they see? Is there a difference between how audiences respond to photographs and streaming video? Put another ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Ewing is a film critic, filmmaker, and screenwriter in LA. All that said, a common element of Christmas classics is a moral ...

In requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in schools, what moral lessons do proponents of House Bill 1145 want students to learn? Let’s start with the last commandment as stated in Exodus: “You ...

Minjeong Kim has received funding from Creative Economy Grant of University of Massachusetts to conduct research cited in this article. Allyssa McCabe does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...