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Papers

(The TQCC of Media Psychology is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Meta-Analysis on the Longitudinal, Age-Dependent Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression	29
Effects of individual toxic behavior on team performance in League of Legends	28
Something that They Never Said: Multimodal Disinformation and Source Vividness in Understanding the Power of AI-Enabled Deepfake News	26
Responses to Social Media Influencers’ Misinformation about COVID-19: A Pre-Registered Multiple-Exposure Experiment	25
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents	21
The Development and Validation of Measurement Instruments to Address Interactions with Positive Social Media Content	20
Offline and online discrimination and mental distress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals: the moderating effect of LGBTQ facebook use	18
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	17
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	17
“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling	14
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	14
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	14
Stopping the Stigma. How Empathy and Reflectiveness Can Help Reduce Mental Health Stigma	13
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	11
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	9
Let Me Think about It: Cognitive Elaboration and Strategies of Resistance to Political Persuasion	8
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	8
This is an Insta-vention! Exploring Cognitive Countermeasures to Reduce Negative Consequences of Social Comparisons on Instagram	8
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	7
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	7
Media as Powerful Coping Tools to Recover from Social Exclusion Experiences? A Systematic Review on Need Restoration and Emotion Regulation through Using Media	6
Linking Epistemic Monitoring to Perceived Realism: the Impact of Story-World Inconsistency on Realism and Engagement	6
Exposure to serial audiovisual narratives increases empathy via vicarious interactions	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	6
Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Impair Narrative Transportation?	6

People-Nearby Applications Use and Local Community Experiences: Disentangling Their Interplay through a Multilevel, Multiple Informant Approach	6
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	5
Four Paths To Misperceptions: A Panel Study On Resistance Against Journalistic Evidence	5
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	5
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	5
Believing and Sharing False News on Social Media: The Role of News Presentation, Epistemic Motives, and Deliberative Thinking	4
Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time	4
Inhibitory control moderates the relation between advertising literacy activation and advertising susceptibility	4
Creating Character Identification and Liking in Narratives: The Impact of Protagonist Motivations on Real-Time Audience Responses	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
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)	4
Beyond User Control and Two-Way Communication: The Four-Factor Model of Interactivity of Wrist-Worn Smart Devices	4
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	4