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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Protective Self-Presentation for Audiences with Interdependent Self-Construals on Ephemeral Platforms: The Case of Humblebragging	29
Media as Powerful Coping Tools to Recover from Social Exclusion Experiences? A Systematic Review on Need Restoration and Emotion Regulation through Using Media	26
Associations Between Valenced News and Affect in Daily Life: Experimental and Ecological Momentary Assessment Approaches	25
A Meta-Analysis on the Longitudinal, Age-Dependent Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression	25
Satirizing the Clothing Industry on YouTube : How Political Satire and User Comments Jointly Shape Behavioral Intentions	21
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	20
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	17
“You See You” (UCU): Self-Representation Affordance Moderates Bandwagon-Cues’ Impacts on Selective Exposure	17
The Story My Friend Told Me: Examining the Interplay of Message Format and Relational Closeness in Misinformation Correction	15
Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Celebrities on Asian American and Hispanic Teens’ Self-Esteem and Ingroup Judgments	14
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	14
To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships	14
Let me listen to where you are. Spatial dimension resources in audio stories can increase imagery, transportation, attention, and recall	10
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	9
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	8
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	8
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	7
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	7
A Content Analysis of Abortion Storylines on U.S. Streaming Services: Lessons from Narrative Persuasion	6
Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time?	6
Strong Foundations and Forward-Thinking in Turbulent Times: A Note from Our Incoming Editors	6
The Development and Validation of Measurement Instruments to Address Interactions with Positive Social Media Content	6
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	6
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Role of Efficacious Beliefs and Perceived Media Effects on Threat Perception in Predicting COVID-19 Compliance in China and the United States	6
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games	5

Making the Good Better? Investigating the Long-Term Associations Between Capitalization on Social Media and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction	5
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	5
This is an Insta-vention! Exploring Cognitive Countermeasures to Reduce Negative Consequences of Social Comparisons on Instagram	5
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	5
How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World	5
Beat Saber as Virtual Reality Exercising in 360 Degrees: A Moderated Mediation Model of VR Playable Angles on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes	4
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	4
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
The Importance of Social Cues When Browsing Appearance-Focused Social Media Content: A Think Aloud Protocol Analysis Using Fitspiration Images and Instagram Feed Browsing	4
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	4
Responses to Social Media Influencers’ Misinformation about COVID-19: A Pre-Registered Multiple-Exposure Experiment	4
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	3
Correction	3
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	3
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	3
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	3
Temporal Impacts of Problematic Social Media Content on Perceived Employee Hirability	3
Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts	3
Quantifying Emotional Flow: Testing the Emotional Flow Hypothesis from a Longitudinal Latent Growth Curve (LGC) Modeling Approach	3
How Stories in the Media Can Be Meaningful in Children’s Lives	3
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	3
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)	3
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	2
Do Violent Video Games Reduce Aggression? The Roles of Prosociality and Cooperation	2
A Window to What We Missed: Effects of Self- versus Other-Exclusion on Social Media Users’ Fundamental Needs, Emotional Responses, and Online Coping Behaviors	2
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	2
Character morality, enjoyment, and appreciation: a replication of Eden, Daalmans, and Johnson (2017)	2
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	2
Media Multitasking Scores and Media Use Hours: A Comparison Across the Standard Stroop Task and an Emotional Stroop Task	2
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	2
Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music	2
More or Less Likeable: The Role of Behavior-Independent Events in the Disposition Formation Process	2
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	2
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	2
User-Type Differential Paths for a Media Effect Model: A Test of Self-Regulation Deficiency in Drama Watching for Different Motive-Driven Users	2
Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise	2
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	2
Social Media, Unsocial Distraction? Testing the Associations between Preadolescents’ SNS Use and Belonging via Two Pathways	2
If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry: Examining the Mechanisms and Gratifications of Humor in Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences	2
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	2
When Melody and Graphics Converge: Background Music Congruency as Predictor of Video Game Enjoyment and Appreciation	2
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Media Use and Perceived Social Support Among Adolescents: A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	2
Too Positive to Be Tweeted? An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Expression on Twitter and Instagram	1
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality	1
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	1
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	1
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	1
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	1
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	1
Investigating Responses to Narrative Cliffhangers Using Affective Disposition Theory	1

Parents, Princesses, and Powers: An Examination of Young Children’s Engagement with Princess and Superhero Culture Based on Indicators of Gendered Parenting	1
Appetitive Food, Aversive Warning: Interaction Effects of Visual and Verbal Cues on Psychophysiological and Attitudinal Responses to PSAs	1
Media as a Locus for Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization: U.S. Youth Report on Discussions and Mutual Mediation	1
Too Much Screen Time or Too Much Guilt? How Child Screen Time and Parental Screen Guilt Affect Parental Stress and Relationship Satisfaction	1
Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Impair Narrative Transportation?	1
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	1
Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time	1
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	1
Harnessing Anger to Persuade: The Moderating Roles of Retributive Efficacy and Prior Attitudes	1
Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	1