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Papers

(The median citation count of Media Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Meta-Analysis on the Longitudinal, Age-Dependent Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression	29
Effects of individual toxic behavior on team performance in League of Legends	28
Something that They Never Said: Multimodal Disinformation and Source Vividness in Understanding the Power of AI-Enabled Deepfake News	26
Responses to Social Media Influencers’ Misinformation about COVID-19: A Pre-Registered Multiple-Exposure Experiment	25
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents	21
The Development and Validation of Measurement Instruments to Address Interactions with Positive Social Media Content	20
Offline and online discrimination and mental distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals: the moderating effect of LGBTQ facebook use	18
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	17
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	17
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	14
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	14
“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling	14
Stopping the Stigma. How Empathy and Reflectiveness Can Help Reduce Mental Health Stigma	13
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	11
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	9
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	8
This is an Insta-vention! Exploring Cognitive Countermeasures to Reduce Negative Consequences of Social Comparisons on Instagram	8
Let Me Think about It: Cognitive Elaboration and Strategies of Resistance to Political Persuasion	8
Why Don’t You Answer Me?! Exploring the Effects of (Repeated Exposure to) Ostracism via Messengers on Users’ Fundamental Needs, Well-Being, and Coping Motivation	7
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	7
Linking Epistemic Monitoring to Perceived Realism: the Impact of Story-World Inconsistency on Realism and Engagement	6
Exposure to serial audiovisual narratives increases empathy via vicarious interactions	6
Individual Inferences in Web-Based Information Environments: How Cognitive Processing Fluency, Information Access, Active Search Behaviors, and Task Competency Affect Metacognitive and Task Judgments	6
Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Impair Narrative Transportation?	6
People-Nearby Applications Use and Local Community Experiences: Disentangling Their Interplay through a Multilevel, Multiple Informant Approach	6

Media as Powerful Coping Tools to Recover from Social Exclusion Experiences? A Systematic Review on Need Restoration and Emotion Regulation through Using Media	6
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	5
Four Paths To Misperceptions: A Panel Study On Resistance Against Journalistic Evidence	5
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	5
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	5
Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time	4
Inhibitory control moderates the relation between advertising literacy activation and advertising susceptibility	4
Creating Character Identification and Liking in Narratives: The Impact of Protagonist Motivations on Real-Time Audience Responses	4
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	4
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)	4
Beyond User Control and Two-Way Communication: The Four-Factor Model of Interactivity of Wrist-Worn Smart Devices	4
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	4
Believing and Sharing False News on Social Media: The Role of News Presentation, Epistemic Motives, and Deliberative Thinking	4
The Emotional Flow Scale: Validating a Measure of Dynamic Emotional Experiences in Message Reception	3
Why We Can’t Stop: The Impact of Rewarding Elements in Videogames on Adolescents’ Problematic Gaming Behavior	3
Character morality, enjoyment, and appreciation: a replication of Eden, Daalmans, and Johnson (2017)	3
Parent Reports of Children’s Fright Reactions to News of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from a National U.S. Sample	3
Counter-stereotypical, yet Counterproductive? How Families at a Science Museum Respond to Narratives that Defy Gender Stereotypes	3
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	3
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games	3
Watching television in a home environment: effects on children’s attention, problem solving and comprehension	3
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	3
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	3
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity	2
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	2
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality	2
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	2
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	2
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	2
Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	2
One-Time Decision or Continual Adjustment? A Longitudinal Study of the Within-Person Privacy Calculus among Users and Non-Users of a COVID-19 Contact Tracing App	2
Investigating Responses to Narrative Cliffhangers Using Affective Disposition Theory	2
Vicarious self-affirmation: Understanding key mechanisms	2
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	2
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	2
Media Multitasking in Younger and Older Adults: Associations with Cognitive Abilities and Biological Stress Responses	2
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use	2
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	2
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	2
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Let me listen to where you are. Spatial dimension resources in audio stories can increase imagery, transportation, attention, and recall	2
Satirizing the Clothing Industry on YouTube : How Political Satire and User Comments Jointly Shape Behavioral Intentions	1
Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents’ (Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study	1
Beyond the Buzz: Investigating the Effects of a Notification-Disabling Intervention on Smartphone Behavior and Digital Well-Being	1
Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	1
Too Much Screen Time or Too Much Guilt? How Child Screen Time and Parental Screen Guilt Affect Parental Stress and Relationship Satisfaction	1
Social Media, Unsocial Distraction? Testing the Associations between Preadolescents’ SNS Use and Belonging via Two Pathways	1
Beat Saber as Virtual Reality Exercising in 360 Degrees: A Moderated Mediation Model of VR Playable Angles on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes	1
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	1
The 3D Sound Power of Immersion Processing and Psychophysiological Effects of Binaural versus Stereo Audio Stories	1

The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters	1
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	1
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	1
How Stories in the Media Can Be Meaningful in Children’s Lives	1
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	1
To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships	1
‘You Got My Back?’ Severity and Counter-Speech in Online Hate Speech Toward Minority Groups	1
A Panel Study on the Dynamics of Social Media Use and Conspiracy Thinking	1
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	1
Overcoming challenges and leveraging opportunities	1
Temporal Impacts of Problematic Social Media Content on Perceived Employee Hirability	1
A Window to What We Missed: Effects of Self- versus Other-Exclusion on Social Media Users’ Fundamental Needs, Emotional Responses, and Online Coping Behaviors	1
The Importance of Social Cues When Browsing Appearance-Focused Social Media Content: A Think Aloud Protocol Analysis Using Fitspiration Images and Instagram Feed Browsing	1
Quantifying Emotional Flow: Testing the Emotional Flow Hypothesis from a Longitudinal Latent Growth Curve (LGC) Modeling Approach	1