OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	66
Processing of Facial Information Related to Emotional Inferences During Reading of Text and Graphic Narratives	51
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	51
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	43
Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load	39
Reflective Realities: Exploring the Mechanisms of Mirror Dwelling in Social Virtual Reality	30
The Dark Side of Fandom: Exploring the Association between Parasocial Relationships with Celebrities and Aggression	30
Digital Gaming and Academic Achievement: Within-Person Relations from Age 10 to 16 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort	17
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	15
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	14
Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress	14
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	13
“I was Absolutely Devastated at This Death”: Refining the Conceptualization and Processes of Parasocial Breakup Distress	13
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	12
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	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
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	10
Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters	10
#MeToo Movement Backlash: How Evaluations of Women Advocates as More “Sexist” Weaken Movement Support	9
Individual Inferences in Web-Based Information Environments: How Cognitive Processing Fluency, Information Access, Active Search Behaviors, and Task Competency Affect Metacognitive and Task Judgments	9
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	9
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	8
Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents’ (Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study	8
Effects of Framing Counter-Stereotypes as Surprising on Rethinking Prior Opinions About Outgroups: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	8

Direct and Indirect Effects of Communication Channel and Perceived Affordances on Perceptions of Support: A Dyadic Mediation Analysis	8
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	8
Lifetime Video Game Exposure is Associated with Internalization of Sexist STEM Beliefs in Women and Men	8
Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	8
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
The Story My Friend Told Me: Examining the Interplay of Message Format and Relational Closeness in Misinformation Correction	7
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	7
You’ll Never Walk Alone: How Online Communication Shapes Digital Health Activism as Prosocial Collective Action	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	6
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	6
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	6
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	6
Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Addiction and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Review	6
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	5
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	5
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	5
The Impact of Concurrent and Sequential Media Multitasking on Performance: The Role of Task Relevance and Working Memory	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
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	5
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	5
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	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
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	4
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	4
Harnessing Anger to Persuade: The Moderating Roles of Retributive Efficacy and Prior Attitudes	4
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity	4
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	4
Too Positive to Be Tweeted? An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Expression on Twitter and Instagram	4
Emotional Expressions and First Impression Formation in Social Media Profiles	4
Effects of Health-related Deepfakes on Misperceptions: Moderating Effects of Issue Relevance and Accuracy Motivation	3
Racial Bias in AI Training Data: Do Laypersons Notice?	3
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	3
The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters	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
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	3
Discounting Counter-Stereotypical Representations in Entertainment Based on Existing Beliefs	3
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use	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
I Help You, You Help Me: Interracial Reciprocity in Situation Comedies Influences Racial Attitudes	3
Angry Content for Angry People: How Anger Appeals Facilitate Health Misinformation Recall on Social Media	3
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	2
A Digital Training Program Fostering Media Sign Literacy in Preschool Children. An Evaluation Study	2
Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music	2
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	2

The Effects of Solutions versus ‘Heart-warmer’ Journalism on Audience Wellbeing, Self-Efficacy, and Trust	2
How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World	2
Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise	2
Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts	2
Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time?	2
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	2
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Media Use and Perceived Social Support Among Adolescents: A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	2
Eye Contact in Porn: Multifaceted Responses to Direct Gaze in Brief Sexually Explicit Videos Among Heterosexual Cisgender Men	1
Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	1
The Impact of Online Political Conflict Frames on Party Evaluations and Trust in Politicians	1
“You See You” (UCU): Self-Representation Affordance Moderates Bandwagon-Cues’ Impacts on Selective Exposure	1
Associations Between Valenced News and Affect in Daily Life: Experimental and Ecological Momentary Assessment Approaches	1
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	1
Growth and Gratitude: A Note From Our Outgoing Editors	1
Tempus Fugit: Unraveling Temporal Occurrence and Display Order Effects of Online Information on Employer Impressions	1
The Emotional Flow Scale: Validating a Measure of Dynamic Emotional Experiences in Message Reception	1
Protective Self-Presentation for Audiences with Interdependent Self-Construals on Ephemeral Platforms: The Case of Humblebragging	1
What Can Cognitive Load and Processing Fluency Tell Us About Difficult Processing?	1
Family Dysfunction and Problematic Media Use Among Chinese Preschool Children: A Moderated Mediation Model	1
A Panel Study on the Dynamics of Social Media Use and Conspiracy Thinking	1
Linking Epistemic Monitoring to Perceived Realism: the Impact of Story-World Inconsistency on Realism and Engagement	1
Using Emojis That Alter the Meaning of Written Messages to Communicate Interpersonal Relations	1
A Content Analysis of Abortion Storylines on U.S. Streaming Services: Lessons from Narrative Persuasion	1
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	1
Exploring the Paradox of Cross-Cutting Exposure and Affective Polarization: A Curvilinear Model Influenced by Political Ideology Strength	1
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	1