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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	49
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	43
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	43
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	43
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	38
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	35
Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress	32
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	24
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	21
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	20
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	17
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	14
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	14
Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters	13
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents	13
Effects of Framing Counter-Stereotypes as Surprising on Rethinking Prior Opinions About Outgroups: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	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	10
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
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	10
#MeToo Movement Backlash: How Evaluations of Women Advocates as More “Sexist” Weaken Movement Support	9
Direct and Indirect Effects of Communication Channel and Perceived Affordances on Perceptions of Support: A Dyadic Mediation Analysis	9
Lifetime Video Game Exposure is Associated with Internalization of Sexist STEM Beliefs in Women and Men	9
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	8
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	8
Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	8

Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	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	8
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	8
You’ll Never Walk Alone: How Online Communication Shapes Digital Health Activism as Prosocial Collective Action	7
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	7
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	7
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	7
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	6
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	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
User-Type Differential Paths for a Media Effect Model: A Test of Self-Regulation Deficiency in Drama Watching for Different Motive-Driven Users	6
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	6
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	6
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	6
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	5
“Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosive Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling	5
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality	5
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	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
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	5
Harnessing Anger to Persuade: The Moderating Roles of Retributive Efficacy and Prior Attitudes	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
Appetitive Food, Aversive Warning: Interaction Effects of Visual and Verbal Cues on Psychophysiological and Attitudinal Responses to PSAs	5
Too Positive to Be Tweeted? An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Expression on Twitter and Instagram	5
Discounting Counter-Stereotypical Representations in Entertainment Based on Existing Beliefs	4
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity	4
Emotional Expressions and First Impression Formation in Social Media Profiles	4
Angry Content for Angry People: How Anger Appeals Facilitate Health Misinformation Recall on Social Media	4
The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters	4
Effects of Health-related Deepfakes on Misperceptions: Moderating Effects of Issue Relevance and Accuracy Motivation	4
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use	3
‘You Got My Back?’ Severity and Counter-Speech in Online Hate Speech Toward Minority Groups	3
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	3
The Effects of Solutions versus ‘Heart-warmer’ Journalism on Audience Wellbeing, Self-Efficacy, and Trust	3
I Help You, You Help Me: Interracial Reciprocity in Situation Comedies Influences Racial Attitudes	3
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	3
Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts	3
Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Celebrities on Asian American and Hispanic Teens’ Self-Esteem and Ingroup Judgments	3
Do I Value My Private Data? Exploring Model-Driven Predictions on the Willingness to Use Smart Home Devices	3
Correction	3
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	3
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
Family Dysfunction and Problematic Media Use Among Chinese Preschool Children: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Eye Contact in Porn: Multifaceted Responses to Direct Gaze in Brief Sexually Explicit Videos Among Heterosexual Cisgender Men	2
A Panel Study on the Dynamics of Social Media Use and Conspiracy Thinking	2
Linking Epistemic Monitoring to Perceived Realism: the Impact of Story-World Inconsistency on Realism and Engagement	2
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	2

Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	2
Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music	2
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	2
Tempus Fugit: Unraveling Temporal Occurrence and Display Order Effects of Online Information on Employer Impressions	2
Exploring the Paradox of Cross-Cutting Exposure and Affective Polarization: A Curvilinear Model Influenced by Political Ideology Strength	2
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	2
How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World	2
A Digital Training Program Fostering Media Sign Literacy in Preschool Children. An Evaluation Study	2
Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise	2
Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	2
Growth and Gratitude: A Note From Our Outgoing Editors	2
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	2