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Cantor, J.R. (1978). Research on television's effects on children. Phaedrus: InternationalJournalof Children's LiteratureResearch, 5(1), 9-13.
Cantor, J. (1982). Über die medienvermittelte Angst von Kindern. (Translated into German from original ICA paper titled "Developmental studies of children's fright from mass media"). Fernsehen und Bildung: InternationaleZeitschrift für MedienpsychologieundMedienpraxis, 16, 115-127.
Cantor, J. & Wilson, B. J. (1988). Helping children cope with frightening media presentations. Current Psychology: Research & Reviews, 7, 58-75.
Cantor, J. (1989). Studying children's emotional reactions to mass media. In B. Dervin, L. Grossberg, B. O'Keefe, & E. Wartella (Eds.), Rethinking communication. Vol. 2. Paradigm exemplars (pp. 47-59). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Cantor, J. (1991). Fright responses to mass media productions. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Responding to the Screen: Reception and Reaction Processes (pp. 169-197). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Hoffner, C., & Cantor, J. (1991). Perceiving and responding to mass media characters. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Responding to the Screen: Reception and Reaction Processes (pp. 63-101). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cantor, J. (1992). Children's emotional responses to technological disasters conveyed by the mass media. In J. M. Wober (Ed.), Television and Nuclear Power: Making the Public Mind (pp. 31-53). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Cantor, J., Mares, M. L, & Oliver, M. B. (1993). Parents' and children's emotional reactions to televised coverage of the Gulf War. In B. Greenberg & W. Gantz (Eds.), Desert storm and the mass media (pp. 325-340). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Cantor, J. (1994). Fright reactions to mass media. In J. Bryant and D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (pp. 213-245). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cantor, J. (1994). Confronting children's fright responses to mass media. In A. Huston & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media, family, and children: Social scientific, psychodynamic, and clinical perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cantor, J. (1995). Fright responses to television and films. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts, 23, 75-89.
Cantor, J., & Oliver, M. B. (1996). Developmental differences in responses to horror. In J. B. Weaver & R. Tamborini (Eds.), Horror films: Research on audience preference and reactions (pp. 63-80). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cantor, J. (1996). Television and children's fear. In T. MacBeth (Ed.), Tuning in to young viewers: Social science perspectives on television (pp. 87-115). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Cantor, J. & Harrison, K. S. (1996). Ratings and advisories for television programming. In National television violence study. Vol. 1 (pp. 361-410). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (Also published by Mediascope; Presented at ICA convention, May 1996.)
Cantor, J., Harrison, K. S., & Nathanson, A. I. (1997). Ratings and advisories for television programming. In Center for Communication and Social Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara (Ed.), National television violence study. Vol. 2 (pp. 267-322). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Cantor J. (1997). Children's fright reactions to mass media. Trends in Communication (Netherlands, English-language journal), 2, 75-89.
Cantor, J. (1997). Children's fright responses to television and films. News on Children and Violence on the Screen: A Newsletter from the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen. 1 (3) 1-2.
Cantor, J. (1997). Critique of the new rating system for United States television. News on Children and Violence on the Screen: A Newsletter from the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen. 1 (1-2), 26-27.
Cantor, J. (1998). Ratings for program content: The role of research findings. In K. Jamieson (Ed.), The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 557, 54-69.
Cantor, J. (1998). Children's attraction to violent television programming. In J. H. Goldstein, (Ed.), Why we watch: The attractions of violent entertainment (pp. 88-115). Oxford University Press. (Volume supported by the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation).
Cantor, J., Harrison, K. S., & Krcmar, M. (1998). Ratings and advisories: Implications for the new rating system for television. In J. T. Hamilton (Ed.), Television violence and public policy (pp. 179-211). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Invited paper presented at the Duke Conference on Media Violence and Public Policy, June, 1996; also presented to Entertainment Industry Ratings Implementation Group, Washington, DC, September 17, 1996).
Valkenburg, P. M., & Cantor, J. (2000). Children's likes and dislikes of entertainment programming. In D. Zillmann & P. Vorderer (Eds.), Media entertainment: The Psychology of its appeal (pp. 135-152). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Brown, J. D., & Cantor, J. (2000). An agenda for research on youth and the media. In J. D. Brown & J. Cantor (Eds.), The mass media and adolescents' health. Supplement to Journal of Adolescent Health, 27 (2), 2-7.
Cantor, J. (2000). Media violence. In J. D. Brown & J. Cantor (Eds.), The mass media and adolescents' health. Supplement to Journal of Adolescent Health, 27 (2), 30-34.
Cantor, J. (2001). Media and children's fears, anxieties, and perceptions of danger. D. G. Singer & J. L. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of children and the media (pp. 207-221). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Cantor, J., & Mares, M. L. M. (2001). Effects of television on child and family emotional well-being. In J. Bryant (Ed.), Television and the American family. (Second Edition, pp. 317-332). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cantor, J. (2002). Fright reactions to mass media. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (pp. 287-306). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cantor, J. (2002). Media violence effects and interventions: The roles of communication and emotion. In J. Bryant, D. Roskos-Ewoldsen, & J Cantor (Eds.), Communication and emotion: Essays in honor of Dolf Zillmann (pp 197-220). Mahwah: NJ: Erlbaum.