OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Media Psychology is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	106
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	66
Processing of Facial Information Related to Emotional Inferences During Reading of Text and Graphic Narratives	54
Empathy in the Face of Death: Fear Transcendence Effects are Conditional on Empathizing with Movie Characters in Eudaimonic Entertainment	45
Over-Time Relationships of Direct and Indirect Digital Hate Victimization on Fundamental Needs and Prosocial Bystander Intervention: A Two-Wave Panel Study	42
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	38
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
Digital Gaming and Academic Achievement: Within-Person Relations from Age 10 to 16 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort	23
Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load	21
The Dark Side of Fandom: Exploring the Association between Parasocial Relationships with Celebrities and Aggression	21
Reflective Realities: Exploring the Mechanisms of Mirror Dwelling in Social Virtual Reality	20
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	20
“I was Absolutely Devastated at This Death”: Refining the Conceptualization and Processes of Parasocial Breakup Distress	17
Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress	17
The Dynamic and Reciprocal Relationship Between Problematic Internet Use and Loneliness: A Longitudinal Study	17
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	15
Beyond the Screen: A Meta-Analysis of How Tracking Levels, Age, and Issue Relevance Shape the Effectiveness of Immersive Media in Health Communication	13
Associations of Instagram and TikTok Use with Appearance-Based Social Comparison, Body Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem: A Daily Diary Study	11
Unpacking the Relationship Between Bias-Based Cyberbullying and Internalizing Symptoms Amongst Sexual Minority Youth: The Mediating Role of Internalized Homophobia and the Moderating Role of Resilienc	11
#MeToo Movement Backlash: How Evaluations of Women Advocates as More “Sexist” Weaken Movement Support	11
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	11
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	10
Individual Inferences in Web-Based Information Environments: How Cognitive Processing Fluency, Information Access, Active Search Behaviors, and Task Competency Affect Metacognitive and Task Judgments	10
Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters	10
Effects of Framing Counter-Stereotypes as Surprising on Rethinking Prior Opinions About Outgroups: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	10

Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	9
Making and Breaking Parasocial Relationships with Human and Virtual Influencers: An Experience Sampling Study	9
Direct and Indirect Effects of Communication Channel and Perceived Affordances on Perceptions of Support: A Dyadic Mediation Analysis	8
Lifetime Video Game Exposure is Associated with Internalization of Sexist STEM Beliefs in Women and Men	8
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	8
Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents’ (Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study	8
The Story My Friend Told Me: Examining the Interplay of Message Format and Relational Closeness in Misinformation Correction	8
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	7
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	7
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	7
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	7
Defensive Attribution of AI Fairness: The Role of Procedural Fairness in AI’s Moral Responsibility	7
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	6
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	6
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	6
Cognitive effects of political microtargeting: an eye-tracking study	6
You’ll Never Walk Alone: How Online Communication Shapes Digital Health Activism as Prosocial Collective Action	6
Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Addiction and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Review	6
The Thin Line Between Harmful and Benign: Perceptions of Humorous and Non-Humorous Hate Speech in Humorous and Neutral Social Media Contexts	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	5
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	5
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	5
User-Type Differential Paths for a Media Effect Model: A Test of Self-Regulation Deficiency in Drama Watching for Different Motive-Driven Users	5
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	5
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	5
The Impact of Concurrent and Sequential Media Multitasking on Performance: The Role of Task Relevance and Working Memory	5
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	5
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	4
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	4
Too Positive to Be Tweeted? An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Expression on Twitter and Instagram	4
From Ads to Action: Femvertising’s Impact on Brand Image and Purchase Probability Through Well-Being Dimensions	4
Harnessing Anger to Persuade: The Moderating Roles of Retributive Efficacy and Prior Attitudes	4
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	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
Appetitive Food, Aversive Warning: Interaction Effects of Visual and Verbal Cues on Psychophysiological and Attitudinal Responses to PSAs	4
Emotional Expressions and First Impression Formation in Social Media Profiles	3
‘You Got My Back?’ Severity and Counter-Speech in Online Hate Speech Toward Minority Groups	3
Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Celebrities on Asian American and Hispanic Teens’ Self-Esteem and Ingroup Judgments	3
The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters	3
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use	3
Effects of Health-related Deepfakes on Misperceptions: Moderating Effects of Issue Relevance and Accuracy Motivation	3
I Help You, You Help Me: Interracial Reciprocity in Situation Comedies Influences Racial Attitudes	3
Racial Bias in AI Training Data: Do Laypersons Notice?	3
Discounting Counter-Stereotypical Representations in Entertainment Based on Existing Beliefs	3
Angry Content for Angry People: How Anger Appeals Facilitate Health Misinformation Recall on Social Media	3
“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling	3
Augmenting Multidimensional Awe Through Technological Immersion	3
Do I Value My Private Data? Exploring Model-Driven Predictions on the Willingness to Use Smart Home Devices	3
Small Word Change, Large Effect on News Users? How the Use of Gender-Inclusive Language in News Articles Influences News Selection and News Engagement	3
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity	3

Measuring Parasocial Processing: An Easily-Applicable Short Version of the Parasocial Interaction-Process Scales	3
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Media Use and Perceived Social Support Among Adolescents: A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	2
Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	2
Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts	2
Tempus Fugit: Unraveling Temporal Occurrence and Display Order Effects of Online Information on Employer Impressions	2
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	2
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	2
Early Media Use Predicts Later Executive Function Difficulties Through Problematic Media Use: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model Testing Bidirectional Relations in Middle Childhood with an Early Childhood Med	2
Family Dysfunction and Problematic Media Use Among Chinese Preschool Children: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	2
Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music	2
Growth and Gratitude: A Note From Our Outgoing Editors	2
The Effects of Solutions versus ‘Heart-warmer’ Journalism on Audience Wellbeing, Self-Efficacy, and Trust	2
Excessive Scrolling but Attentive News Reading? How Short Video Use and Awareness of Its Negative Impact Shape News Engagement Across Devices	2
A Digital Training Program Fostering Media Sign Literacy in Preschool Children. An Evaluation Study	2
Exploring the Paradox of Cross-Cutting Exposure and Affective Polarization: A Curvilinear Model Influenced by Political Ideology Strength	2
Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time?	2
Using Emojis That Alter the Meaning of Written Messages to Communicate Interpersonal Relations	2
How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World	2
Eye Contact in Porn: Multifaceted Responses to Direct Gaze in Brief Sexually Explicit Videos Among Heterosexual Cisgender Men	2
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	2
A Panel Study on the Dynamics of Social Media Use and Conspiracy Thinking	2
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	2
The Emotional Flow Scale: Validating a Measure of Dynamic Emotional Experiences in Message Reception	2
Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise	2