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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	40
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	37
The Development and Validation of Measurement Instruments to Address Interactions with Positive Social Media Content	36
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	34
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	33
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	29
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	28
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	26
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	18
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	18
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	18
Effects of Framing Counter-Stereotypes as Surprising on Rethinking Prior Opinions About Outgroups: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	14
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	14
#MeToo Movement Backlash: How Evaluations of Women Advocates as More “Sexist” Weaken Movement Support	13
Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters	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	11
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
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents	10
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	9
Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	8
Lifetime Video Game Exposure is Associated with Internalization of Sexist STEM Beliefs in Women and Men	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	7
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	7
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	6

Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	6
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	6
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	6
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	6
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	6
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	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
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	5
You’ll Never Walk Alone: How Online Communication Shapes Digital Health Activism as Prosocial Collective Action	5
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	5
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	5
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	5
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
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	5
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	5
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
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality	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
“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling	4
Harnessing Anger to Persuade: The Moderating Roles of Retributive Efficacy and Prior Attitudes	4
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	4
Four Paths To Misperceptions: A Panel Study On Resistance Against Journalistic Evidence	4
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	4
Angry Content for Angry People: How Anger Appeals Facilitate Health Misinformation Recall on Social Media	3
Emotional Expressions and First Impression Formation in Social Media Profiles	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
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use	3
Discounting Counter-Stereotypical Representations in Entertainment Based on Existing Beliefs	3
‘You Got My Back?’ Severity and Counter-Speech in Online Hate Speech Toward Minority Groups	3
Do I Value My Private Data? Exploring Model-Driven Predictions on the Willingness to Use Smart Home Devices	3
The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters	3
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity	3
You Want This Job? Influence and Interplay of Self-Generated Text and Picture Cues in Professional Networking Service Profiles on Expertise Evaluation	3
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	2
Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time?	2
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Media Use and Perceived Social Support Among Adolescents: A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	2
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	2
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	2
Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts	2
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	2
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	2
The Effects of Solutions versus ‘Heart-warmer’ Journalism on Audience Wellbeing, Self-Efficacy, and Trust	2
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	2
Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Celebrities on Asian American and Hispanic Teens’ Self-Esteem and Ingroup Judgments	2
How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World	2
Correction	2
Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise	2

Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music