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User-Type Differential Paths for a Media Effect Model: A Test of Self-Regulation Deficiency in Drama Watching for Different Motive-Driven Users Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Chingching Chang
Media users are not homogeneous, and research that treats them as such tends to yield inconsistent findings. More nuanced insights into media effect processes might emerge from an identification of...
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A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Daniel S. Lane, Cassandra M. Moxley, Gwen Petro, Arvin Jagayat
This registered report details a longitudinal experiment testing political self-effects – changes in issue-related attitudes and indicators of political self-concept – resulting from political expr...
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Too Much Screen Time or Too Much Guilt? How Child Screen Time and Parental Screen Guilt Affect Parental Stress and Relationship Satisfaction Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Lara N. Wolfers, Robin L. Nabi, Nathan Walter
Recent decades have witnessed a surge in public discourse around the negative effects of media technologies. One of these public debates concerned the negative effects of child screen time on child...
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Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Media Use and Perceived Social Support Among Adolescents: A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jana Blahošová, Martin Tancoš, Young Won Cho, David Šmahel, Steriani Elavsky, Sy-Miin Chow, Michaela Lebedíková
Adolescents commonly use smartphone social media apps, which can affect their perceived social support (PSS). However, study results on social media’s effect on PSS differ, because they employ a se...
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Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Li Zhang, James J. Cummings, Xinyue Liu, Di Mu, Bochao Sun
With the mainstreaming of virtual reality and 360° video, media consumption will increasingly include engaging with highly immersive messages alongside more traditional media formats. That means us...
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Media Multitasking in Younger and Older Adults: Associations with Cognitive Abilities and Biological Stress Responses Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Wienke Wannagat, Tamara Martin, Gerhild Nieding, Nicolas Rohleder, Linda Becker
Media multitasking is increasingly common in everyday life and can be a stressful experience, especially for older adults. The current study investigated the effects of media multi- vs. single-task...
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‘You Got My Back?’ Severity and Counter-Speech in Online Hate Speech Toward Minority Groups Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Ellen Van Houtven, Stella Belle Acquah, Magdalena Obermaier, Muniba Saleem, Desiree Schmuck
Minority members are often targeted by online hate speech. In this article, we advance the literature by conceptualizing online hate speech as a social identity threat, whose consequences can adver...
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From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Francesca Guizzo, Daniela Di Michele, Mara Cadinu
Despite the advancement in women’s conditions in the past fifty years, women are still the targets of forms of oppression that span from sexual objectification to gender economic inequality, which,...
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A Panel Study on the Dynamics of Social Media Use and Conspiracy Thinking Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Sebastián Valenzuela, Trevor Diehl, Sangwon Lee, Daniel Halpern
Studies exploring the association between social media use and belief in conspiracy theories have yielded mixed evidence. To address this inconsistency, we focus on conspiracy thinking – a predispo...
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Awesome, Awful: Emotional Flow in Environmental Messaging Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Chris Skurka, Nahyun Kim, Nicholas Eng, Mary Beth Oliver
Pro-environmental media content, such as nature documentary programming, often features awe-inducing scenes of Earth’s natural beauty, and exposure to this kind of content has been shown to increas...
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Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Tess Van der Zanden, Alexander Peter Schouten
This experimental study investigates how novelty and appropriateness – the two criteria of creativity – affect impressions formed of online dating profile owners. More specifically, it examines how...
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Wise Beyond Their Years: Testing the Mediated Wisdom of Experience Framework with Children Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Judy Watts, James Alex Bonus, Emily Moyer-Gusé
The mediated wisdom of experience (MWOE) framework posits that eudaimonic entertainment can produce outcomes associated with emotional maturity (e.g. delayed gratification). However, this framework...
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Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect” Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Douglas A. Parry
A growing body of research investigates the general possibility that the mere presence of a smartphone might negatively impact cognitive performance, with some researchers posing the “brain drain” ...
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The 3D Sound Power of Immersion Processing and Psychophysiological Effects of Binaural versus Stereo Audio Stories Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Emma Rodero, Isabel Rodríguez-de-Dios
Many people are listening to fiction stories in podcasts and audiobooks. Some techniques, such as 3D or binaural sound, might improve the listeners’ sensory experience in this kind of format. Howev...
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Parents, Princesses, and Powers: An Examination of Young Children’s Engagement with Princess and Superhero Culture Based on Indicators of Gendered Parenting Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jane Shawcroft, Sarah M. Coyne, Adam A. Rogers, Peter Reschke, Laura Stockdale, Hailey Holmgren
Both princesses and superheroes are highly salient parts of early childhood in the United States. Because of the gendered nature of both princesses and superheroes, it is possible that they represe...
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I Help You, You Help Me: Interracial Reciprocity in Situation Comedies Influences Racial Attitudes Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Morgan E. Ellithorpe, David R. Ewoldsen, Xuejing (Shay) Yao, Lanier F. Holt
In this manuscript, three studies examined the effects of viewing situation comedies on attitudes toward Black Americans. Study 1 was a content analysis of sitcoms that had either predominately Bla...
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Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Ward van Zoonen, Anu E. Sivunen, Jeffrey W. Treem
Many organizations fail to optimally benefit from voluntary communication and collaboration tools – e.g. enterprise social media (ESM) – where use depends on workers’ discretionary behaviors. This ...
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Angry Content for Angry People: How Anger Appeals Facilitate Health Misinformation Recall on Social Media Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jiyoung Lee, Callie Kalny, Stefanie Demetriades, Nathan Walter
Social media is often viewed as a breeding ground for misinformation, given the anger-laden nature of its content. Despite the persuasiveness of anger and misinformation on social media, little is ...
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The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Nicholas L. Matthews, C. Joseph Francemone, C. K. Monge, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Teresa Lynch, Matthew Grizzard
ABSTRACT Media psychologists commonly study how narrative elements (e.g. characters) influence entertainment and perceptions. Research on the sequencing and structure of these elements (i.e. metanarrative; the shape of the story) is less common. In both areas, morality tends to ground theorizing (e.g. disposition theory). To extend knowledge in these domains, we conceptualize and observe the effects
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“You See You” (UCU): Self-Representation Affordance Moderates Bandwagon-Cues’ Impacts on Selective Exposure Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Wenbo Li, Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Daniel Sude, Chris Cosma
ABSTRACT Bandwagon cues and interactivity affordances have transformed the way people choose and consume online messages. Two experiments, a computerized lab experiment and an online field experiment, were conducted to investigate the impact of bandwagon cues (high versus low numbers) on selective exposure to online news articles, contingent on the use of a self-representation affordance. Predictions
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Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Nurit Tal-Or
ABSTRACT We explored new antecedents and consequences of identification with media characters that are related to concreteness or abstractness of representations. First, we examined how the portrayal of the protagonist’s behavior affects the reader’s identification with her. Participants read one of four narratives in which we manipulated the character’s usual behavior (abstract traits) and her behavior
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Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Dorothée Hefner, Anna Freytag
ABSTRACT Many mobile phone usage behaviors and cognitions have become habitual, and many people have developed a strong connectedness to their mobile phones and the internet. Yet, habitualized mobile phone connectedness might evoke stress and counter long-term goals. Mindfulness has shown promise in counteracting destructive (mobile phone) habits. Over the course of three preregistered studies, we
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How Stories in the Media Can Be Meaningful in Children’s Lives Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, Addy Weijers, Anna-Maria Ahle, Serena Daalmans
ABSTRACT Most children love stories, but studies examining their potential for growth are rare. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 66 children to understand how stories can be meaningful for them. Before the interview, they watched the Disney • Pixar film Inside Out. The story of this film follows the renowned framework of the Hero’s Journey and has been lauded for its premise concerning emotions
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Associations Between Valenced News and Affect in Daily Life: Experimental and Ecological Momentary Assessment Approaches Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 S.J. Shaikh, A.L. McGowan, D.M. Lydon-Staley
ABSTRACT In 203 (mean age = 38.04 years, SD = 12.05) participants, we tested the association between valenced news and affect using a 14-day, smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment protocol consisting of two components: 1) a once-per-day experimental protocol in which participants were exposed to good news and bad news stories and 2) a four-times-per-day protocol capturing ecological fluctuations
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To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Y. Anthony Chen, Catalina L. Toma
ABSTRACT Collocated dating couples have the choice between interacting in person or via communication media, inviting theorizing about when and why they gravitate toward mediated communication. Drawing on O’Sullivan’s (2000) model, we investigated young adults’ preference for texting over face-to-face (FtF) communication in situations varying in threat (mundane talk vs. difficult conversations vs.
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A Window to What We Missed: Effects of Self- versus Other-Exclusion on Social Media Users’ Fundamental Needs, Emotional Responses, and Online Coping Behaviors Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Sarah Lutz, Christiane M. Büttner, Dominik Neumann
ABSTRACT The present paper investigates the psychological and behavioral responses postulated within the Temporal Need-Threat Model of a specific form of social exclusion: Not being included in other users’ social media posts. Across two experiments (N Total = 563), we distinguished two reasons for this aversive experience: (a) Voluntarily choosing not to engage in the activity being displayed in the
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Why We Can’t Stop: The Impact of Rewarding Elements in Videogames on Adolescents’ Problematic Gaming Behavior Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Davide Pirrone, Regina J. J. M. van den Eijnden, Margot Peeters
ABSTRACT This study explored the association between rewarding elements in videogames and adolescents’ problematic gaming behavior, evaluating the extent to which individual vulnerabilities amplify this relationship. In a two-cohort-design the impact of rewarding elements on adolescents’ problematic gaming was investigated: the first cohort consisted of 2708 secondary school students (53.9% male, M = 13
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The Importance of Social Cues When Browsing Appearance-Focused Social Media Content: A Think Aloud Protocol Analysis Using Fitspiration Images and Instagram Feed Browsing Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Bryony Davies, Mark Turner, Julie Udell
ABSTRACT Previous research has demonstrated an impact of exposure to appearance-focused social media images on measures of female body image. However, the processes through which social media users consider and respond to appearance-focused content whilst browsing, or the degree to which this is reflective of their reactions to images typically encountered during every day browsing, are not fully understood
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Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Christine Anderl, Ana Levordashka, Sonja Utz
ABSTRACT Being aware of others’ expertise is essential for knowledge exchange. Browsing social media has been shown to foster such awareness, often referred to as “ambient awareness”. However, the underlying psychological mechanism has not yet been established. In a series of three preregistered experiments (total N = 445), we tested the notions that individuals make inferences about others’ domains
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Too Positive to Be Tweeted? An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Expression on Twitter and Instagram Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Alexandra Masciantonio, David Bourguignon
The literature on emotional expression on Social Network Sites (SNSs) is still in its infancy. It is assumed that SNSs are subject to a positivity bias: individuals share positive aspects of their ...
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Surprised–Curious–Confused, Empathetic, and Entertained? The Role of Epistemic Emotions and Empathy in Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences and Political News Processing Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Felix Dietrich, Tanja Kugler, Sarah Hennings, Celine Conrad, Frank M. Schneider, Peter Vorderer
Based on the dual-process model of entertainment experiences and motivated cognition, we propose that specific affective states such as surprise, curiosity, and confusion (so-called epistemic emoti...
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The Effect of Similarity to a Transitional Role Model of an Entertainment–Education Narrative Designed to Improve Attitudes Toward Immigrants: Evidence from Three European Countries Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Juan-José Igartua, Alejandro González-Vázquez, Carlos Arcila-Calderón
This study addresses the factors that increase the persuasive impact of entertainment – education (EE) narrative messages designed to improve attitudes toward immigrants. Specifically, the effect o...
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Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Ran Tao, Nguyen Nguyen, Linqi Lu, Luhang Sun, Hyungjin Gill, Katheryn Christy, Karyn Riddle
Drawing from research on priming and identification theory, this study experimentally tests the differential effects of narratives featuring rewards and punishments on inclusive attitudes and behav...
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Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Jessica McKenzie, Rachel Castellón, Emma Willis-Grossmann, Cristina Landeros, Joseph Rooney, Cassandra Stewart
Although lower- and middle-income nations are experiencing a dramatic rise in digital media, scientific understanding of how young people and families in such nations navigate this altered landscap...
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Making the Good Better? Investigating the Long-Term Associations Between Capitalization on Social Media and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Edward John Noon, Chelly Maes, Kathrin Karsay, Laura Vandenbosch
Initial evidence suggests that sharing positive news with others on social media may have short-term emotional benefits for young people. However, little is currently known about whether these capi...
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Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents’ (Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Robyn Vanherle, Ine Beyens, Kathleen Beullens
Adolescents encounter various types of alcohol-related posts on social media, but little research has distinguished between them. Yet, building on social modeling processes, alcohol posts showing f...
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Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time? Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Allison C. Drody, Brandon C. W. Ralph, James Danckert, Daniel Smilek
Evidence suggests that one’s likelihood of media multitasking increases with time-on-task, which can negatively impact performance. The opportunity costs account of sustained attention might explai...
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Temporal Impacts of Problematic Social Media Content on Perceived Employee Hirability Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Caleb T. Carr, Mary C. Katreeb, Ertemisa P. Godinez
Job applicants’ social media postings and presence can impact employers’ perceptions during the hiring process. The current study expands this line of inquiry, exploring the effects of both message...
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Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Lindsay Hahn, Ron Tamborini, Melinda Aley, Joshua Baldwin, Sara M. Grady
Extant research suggests that young audiences often misinterpret narratives’ moral messages, potentially limiting the ability of narratives to serve as effective purveyors of moral lessons. Yet que...
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Investigating Responses to Narrative Cliffhangers Using Affective Disposition Theory Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Katherine Schibler, Lindsay Hahn, Melanie C. Green
Despite the prevalence of cliffhangers in popular narrative entertainment, little research has attempted to investigate the impact of these purportedly high-suspense, unresolved narrative endings o...
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Mind the Information-Gap: Instagram’s Sensitive-Content Screens are More Likely to Deter People from Viewing Potentially Distressing Content When They Provide Information About the Content Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Erin T. Simister, Victoria M. E. Bridgland, Paul Williamson, Melanie K. T. Takarangi
Instagram’s sensitive-content screens seek to minimize engagement with negative content by blurring sensitive images and providing a warning. However, the very design of sensitive-content screens m...
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The Emotional Flow Scale: Validating a Measure of Dynamic Emotional Experiences in Message Reception Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 K. Fitzgerald, C. J. Francemone, M.C. Green, M. Grizzard, R. Frazer
The dynamics of the emotional experience during message consumption, referred to as emotional flow, is hypothesized to be an important and influential element of message reception processes. In thi...
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How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Joomi Lee, Allison Eden
ABSTRACT Video game players actively interact with the virtual world, altering the content of the environment and their subsequent behaviors in meaningful ways. This study investigates how motivational processes shape user behavior, based on a framework combining approach-avoidance motivation and game affordances. The primary hypotheses predicted that in-game threats and resources shape the initial
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How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Melissa J. Robinson, Megan A. Vendemia
Guided by the self- and affect–management (SESAM) model, the current study employed a selective exposure quasi-experimental design in which women (N = 381; Mage = 31.50, SD = 4.89) chose a narrativ...
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The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Katherine R. Dale, Jacob T. Fisher, Jia Liao, Ethan Grinberg
Emotions have long been regarded as a central component of the entertainment media experience. The present study combines computational analysis and quantitative content analysis to analyze the emo...
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Believing and Sharing False News on Social Media: The Role of News Presentation, Epistemic Motives, and Deliberative Thinking Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Wenjie Yan, Zhongdang Pan
How vulnerable are we to misinformation on social media? To address this question, this study examines not only how well (or poorly) individuals discern true and false news on social media, but als...
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Measuring Zoom Fatigue in College Students: Development and Validation of the Meeting Fatigue Scale for Videoconferencing (MFS-V) and the Meeting Fatigue Scale for In-Person (MFS-I) Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Lauren E. Knox, Sara R. Berzenski, Stefanie A. Drew
The COVID-19 pandemic saw a significant growth in the usage of videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom in academia – accompanied by greater reports of exhaustion and burnout associated with extens...
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Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Kennon M. Sheldon, Liudmila Titova
Although some commentators assert that social media use (SMU) has large negative effects on peoples’ mental health, meta-analyses show the effect is tiny at best, implying that individual differenc...
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A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Carly A. McComb, Eric J. Vanman, Stephanie J. Tobin
ABSTRACT Social media have become a pervasive part of contemporary culture and are an essential part of the daily lives of an increasing number of people. Its popularity has brought unlimited opportunities to compare oneself with other people. This meta-analysis combined and summarized the findings of previous experimental research, with the aim of generating causal conclusions regarding the effects
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Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Celebrities on Asian American and Hispanic Teens’ Self-Esteem and Ingroup Judgments Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Marie-Louise Mares
ABSTRACT Do ingroup celebrities yield psychological benefits or costs for marginalized youth? Might outgroup celebrities prompt a sense of connection and thereby also yield benefits? In two experiments (the latter a replication six years later with different exemplars), Asian American (n1 = 85, n2 = 205) and US Hispanic (n1 = 135, n2 = 220) teens were randomized to see ingroup celebrity profiles, outgroup
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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Toqa Hassan
ABSTRACT In this study, I use a representative survey from the German Twin Family Panel (N = 5,472) to examine the extent to which genetic and environmental factors account for time spent playing video games on personal computers and gaming consoles. Results show that genetic variation among twins explains a non-trivial amount of variation in video game play. Through ACE modeling techniques, I find
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Mapping attention across multiple media tasks Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Jacob T. Fisher, Frederic R. Hopp, René Weber
ABSTRACT Paying attention to media requires continuously selecting and processing relevant information while filtering out numerous competing stimuli. Although the factors that drive attention toward or away from a single media task are relatively well characterized, there is a lack of understanding regarding how attention to media functions in the presence of multiple, concurrent tasks. In this manuscript
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“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Reza Shabahang, Sohee Kim, Abbas Ali Hosseinkhanzadeh, Mara S. Aruguete, Keivan Kakabaraee
ABSTRACT Negativity bias predicts that individuals will attend to, learn from, and prioritize negative news more than positive news. Drawing from the addiction components model, this cross-sectional study conceptualized and measured “doomscrolling” as excessive thoughts, urges, or behaviors related to the consumption of negative news on social media platforms. Participants were a convenience sample
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Do Violent Video Games Reduce Aggression? The Roles of Prosociality and Cooperation Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Zien Ding, Qinxue Liu, Zongyuan Wang
ABSTRACT Video games have become an integral part of people’s daily life. Though detrimental outcomes of negative game factors have been demonstrated across previous studies, the effects of prevalently-exist positive game factors, for example, prosociality and cooperation, remain unclear. This study examined the effects of positive game factors in violent video games on aggressive behavior by exploring
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Quantifying Emotional Flow: Testing the Emotional Flow Hypothesis from a Longitudinal Latent Growth Curve (LGC) Modeling Approach Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Lijiang Shen, Shu Scott Li
ABSTRACT This paper presents a longitudinal, latent growth curve (LGC) modeling approach to refine the emotional flow measure and hypothesis testing. Emotional flow is operationalized as the marked within-individuals variations in one or more discrete emotions over time, which can be modeled as the amount and shape of change in emotions during message exposure. Emotional flow effects are tested in
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Beat Saber as Virtual Reality Exercising in 360 Degrees: A Moderated Mediation Model of VR Playable Angles on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin, Dai-Yun Wu, Nicholas Bowman
ABSTRACT Physical inactivity is a global problem, and active video games (AVGs) have been demonstrated as effective at motivating players to be more physically active. Virtual-reality AVGs (VRAVGs) further encourage engagement with exerting gameplay by challenging players to move in a full 360-degree range of motion. As a unique feature of VRAVGs, we examined the influence of using multiple playable
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Media as Powerful Coping Tools to Recover from Social Exclusion Experiences? A Systematic Review on Need Restoration and Emotion Regulation through Using Media Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Sarah Lutz, Frank M. Schneider, Sabine Reich
ABSTRACT Socially excluded individuals often use media to cope with their feelings of loneliness, restore threatened needs, and regulate their emotions. However, social exclusion experiences have often been studied from a social-psychological perspective, with little consideration of media-specific characteristics. Thus, this paper aims to identify which different media applications individuals use
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Social Media, Unsocial Distraction? Testing the Associations between Preadolescents’ SNS Use and Belonging via Two Pathways Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Anneleen Meeus, Kathleen Beullens, Steven Eggermont
ABSTRACT The goal of the present study was to examine the social repercussions of preadolescents’ SNS use by testing two differential pathways regarding the role of technology in interpersonal relationships. Specifically, we expected preadolescents’ social media use to be associated with heightened self-disclosure, which we then predicted to relate to increased feelings of belonging to their friends
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Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35 Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Amelia C. Couture Bue, Sonya Dal Cin, Kristen Harrison
ABSTRACT Advertisements that ostensibly serve to empower women have become popular in recent years, but recent research calls into question the psychological effectiveness of these advertisements. While seemingly progressive, empowerment-themed advertisements (ETAs) often pair empowerment-themed narratives with objectifying visuals despite the established harmful effects of objectification in media
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Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic Media Psychology (IF 3.912) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Didier Courbet, Marie-Pierre Fourquet-Courbet, Évi Basile-Commaille, Pascal Bernard, Céline Pascual-Espuny, Pemon Kouadio, Tracy Klein
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have provided an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the processes by which media are used to improve coping and impaired well-being. Despite the important health issues at stake, the overall dynamic of media-based coping strategies (MBCS), their evolution over time according to their perceived efficacy, and their link with social well-being are