Psychology of Popular Media

Papers
(The H4-Index of Psychology of Popular Media is 16. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Short-Form Video Usage on Self-Expansion42
Qualitative and quantitative investigations of Office fans’ connections with fictional and celebrity couples: Identification, parasocial relationships, and beyond.39
Me, myself, and my avatar: Self-discrepancy, embodiment, and narrative involvement in gaming experiences.34
Random app of kindness: Evaluating the potential of a smartphone intervention to impact adolescents’ empathy, prosocial behavior, and aggression.34
The psychology of likes: Relevance of feedback on Instagram and relationship to self-esteem and social status.33
What does the Cat in the Hat know about that? An analysis of the educational and unrealistic content of children’s narrative science media.30
Supplemental Material for “To Be Yourself or Your Selfies, That Is the Question”: The Moderation Role of Gender, Nationality, and Privacy Settings in the Relationship Between Selfie-Engagement and Bod26
Supplemental Material for Subtle Threat Cues in Marketing Horror and Children’s Entertainment26
Supplemental Material for Other-Focus Versus Self-Focus: The Power of Self-Transcendent TV Shows25
A moderated mediation model of the relationship between passive social network usages and life satisfaction.23
Supplemental Material for Postexposure Engagement With More and Less Eudaimonic Films: 10-Year Patterns of Response and the Role of Parasocial Relationship and Retrospective Imaginative Involvement23
Can the social network bridge social distancing? Social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic.22
Extensions of the proteus effect on intergroup aggression in the real world.20
From online to offline: Pathways from active social media use to proenvironmental behaviors through the lens of construal level theory.19
Social media usage is associated with lower knowledge about anxiety and indiscriminate use of anxiety coping strategies.18
“Using Comics and tweets to raise awareness about gender biases in STEM.” Correction to Freedman, Green, Kaufman, and Flanagan (2022).17
Black lives matter, Black stories matter, Black voices matter: Black Lives Matter protests, COVID-19, and streaming services.16
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