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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between online vigilance and affective well-being in everyday life: Combining smartphone logging with experience sampling	35
Daily technoference, technology use during couple leisure time, and relationship quality	30
A Meta-Analysis on the Longitudinal, Age-Dependent Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression	23
Effects of individual toxic behavior on team performance in League of Legends	22
Is receiving Dislikes in social media still better than being ignored? The effects of ostracism and rejection on need threat and coping responses online	22
Triple spirals? A three-wave panel study on the longitudinal associations between social media use and young individuals’ alcohol consumption	21
Something that They Never Said: Multimodal Disinformation and Source Vividness in Understanding the Power of AI-Enabled Deepfake News	20
The Development and Validation of Measurement Instruments to Address Interactions with Positive Social Media Content	18
Responses to Social Media Influencers’ Misinformation about COVID-19: A Pre-Registered Multiple-Exposure Experiment	16
That selfie becomes you: examining taking and posting selfies as forms of self-objectification	16
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents	14
Women, not objects: testing a sensitizing web campaign against female sexual objectification to temper sexual harassment and hostile sexism	14
Offline and online discrimination and mental distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals: the moderating effect of LGBTQ facebook use	13
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	13
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	11
Between Instagram browsing and subjective well-being: Social comparison or emotional contagion?	11
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	11
Blaming in the name of our people: how attitudinal congruence conditions the effects of populist messages communicated by traditional media, politicians, and citizens	10
Stopping the Stigma. How Empathy and Reflectiveness Can Help Reduce Mental Health Stigma	8
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	8
“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling	7
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	6
Metacognitive approach to narrative persuasion: the desirable and undesirable consequences of narrative disfluency	6
Development and testing of the advertising literacy activation task: an indirect measurement instrument for children aged 7-13 years old	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	5

Identity shift effects of personalization of self-presentation on extraversion	5
Let Me Think about It: Cognitive Elaboration and Strategies of Resistance to Political Persuasion	5
This is an Insta-vention! Exploring Cognitive Countermeasures to Reduce Negative Consequences of Social Comparisons on Instagram	5
Four Paths To Misperceptions: A Panel Study On Resistance Against Journalistic Evidence	5
Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time	4
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	4
Linking Epistemic Monitoring to Perceived Realism: the Impact of Story-World Inconsistency on Realism and Engagement	4
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	4
Does visual framing drive eye gaze behavior? The effects of visual framing of athletes in an increasingly visual social media world	4
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	4
Inhibitory control moderates the relation between advertising literacy activation and advertising susceptibility	4
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	4
Believing and Sharing False News on Social Media: The Role of News Presentation, Epistemic Motives, and Deliberative Thinking	3
Beyond User Control and Two-Way Communication: The Four-Factor Model of Interactivity of Wrist-Worn Smart Devices	3
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	3
Media as Powerful Coping Tools to Recover from Social Exclusion Experiences? A Systematic Review on Need Restoration and Emotion Regulation through Using Media	3
Exposure to serial audiovisual narratives increases empathy via vicarious interactions	3
Creating Character Identification and Liking in Narratives: The Impact of Protagonist Motivations on Real-Time Audience Responses	3
Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Impair Narrative Transportation?	3
People-Nearby Applications Use and Local Community Experiences: Disentangling Their Interplay through a Multilevel, Multiple Informant Approach	3
Me, myself, and my mediated ties: Parasocial experiences as an ego-driven process	3
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	3
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	2
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	2
Parent Reports of Children’s Fright Reactions to News of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from a National U.S. Sample	2
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity	2
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	2
Character morality, enjoyment, and appreciation: a replication of Eden, Daalmans, and Johnson (2017)	2
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	2
To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships	2
Exploring the heart rate as a chronemic cue in virtual settings: how perceptions of consistent and varied heart rates of a storyteller influence self-reported other-arousal, empathy and social presenc	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
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	2
The vicious cycle of stressors, food advertising and overeating: how stigmatizing anti-obesity PSAs, which precede food commercials, influence subsequent implicit and explicit attitudes toward high- a	2
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games	2
Let me listen to where you are. Spatial dimension resources in audio stories can increase imagery, transportation, attention, and recall	2
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use	2
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality	2
Vicarious self-affirmation: Understanding key mechanisms	2
Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents’ (Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study	1
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	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
Beat Saber as Virtual Reality Exercising in 360 Degrees: A Moderated Mediation Model of VR Playable Angles on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes	1
Quantifying Emotional Flow: Testing the Emotional Flow Hypothesis from a Longitudinal Latent Growth Curve (LGC) Modeling Approach	1
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	1
Overcoming challenges and leveraging opportunities	1
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	1
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Satirizing the Clothing Industry on YouTube : How Political Satire and User Comments Jointly Shape Behavioral Intentions	1
Watching television in a home environment: effects on children’s attention, problem solving and comprehension	1

Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	1
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	1
How Stories in the Media Can Be Meaningful in Children’s Lives	1
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	1