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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Protective Self-Presentation for Audiences with Interdependent Self-Construals on Ephemeral Platforms: The Case of Humblebragging	34
Media as Powerful Coping Tools to Recover from Social Exclusion Experiences? A Systematic Review on Need Restoration and Emotion Regulation through Using Media	34
A Content Analysis of Abortion Storylines on U.S. Streaming Services: Lessons from Narrative Persuasion	33
A Meta-Analysis on the Longitudinal, Age-Dependent Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression	30
Strong Foundations and Forward-Thinking in Turbulent Times: A Note from Our Incoming Editors	29
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	29
Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Celebrities on Asian American and Hispanic Teens’ Self-Esteem and Ingroup Judgments	27
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	23
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	18
“You See You” (UCU): Self-Representation Affordance Moderates Bandwagon-Cues’ Impacts on Selective Exposure	18
The Story My Friend Told Me: Examining the Interplay of Message Format and Relational Closeness in Misinformation Correction	16
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	14
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35	11
Satirizing the Clothing Industry on YouTube : How Political Satire and User Comments Jointly Shape Behavioral Intentions	10
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	10
Associations Between Valenced News and Affect in Daily Life: Experimental and Ecological Momentary Assessment Approaches	9
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	8
To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships	7
The Development and Validation of Measurement Instruments to Address Interactions with Positive Social Media Content	7
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Exposure to Upward Comparison Targets on Self-Evaluations and Emotions	6
Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time?	6
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	6
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters	5
Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the “Brain Drain Effect”	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
How Motivation and Digital Affordances Shape User Behavior in a Virtual World	5
This is an Insta-vention! Exploring Cognitive Countermeasures to Reduce Negative Consequences of Social Comparisons on Instagram	5
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Playing Video Games	5
The Importance of Social Cues When Browsing Appearance-Focused Social Media Content: A Think Aloud Protocol Analysis Using Fitspiration Images and Instagram Feed Browsing	4
Creativity, Expectancy Violations, and Impression Formation: Effects of Novelty and Appropriateness in Online Dating Profile Texts	4
Correction	4
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	4
Quantifying Emotional Flow: Testing the Emotional Flow Hypothesis from a Longitudinal Latent Growth Curve (LGC) Modeling Approach	4
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	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
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	4
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	4
Responses to Social Media Influencers’ Misinformation about COVID-19: A Pre-Registered Multiple-Exposure Experiment	4
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	3
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	3
Too Much Screen Time or Too Much Guilt? How Child Screen Time and Parental Screen Guilt Affect Parental Stress and Relationship Satisfaction	3
Do Violent Video Games Reduce Aggression? The Roles of Prosociality and Cooperation	3
How Stories in the Media Can Be Meaningful in Children’s Lives	3
When Melody and Graphics Converge: Background Music Congruency as Predictor of Video Game Enjoyment and Appreciation	3
Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music	3
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	3
Making the Good Better? Investigating the Long-Term Associations Between Capitalization on Social Media and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction	3
Mutual Influence in LGBTQ Teens’ Use of Media to Socialize Their Parents	3
Beat Saber as Virtual Reality Exercising in 360 Degrees: A Moderated Mediation Model of VR Playable Angles on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes	3
Temporal Impacts of Problematic Social Media Content on Perceived Employee Hirability	3
Examining the Reciprocal Relationship Between Social Media Use and Perceived Social Support Among Adolescents: A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	3
Social Scripts and Expectancy Violations: Evaluating Communication with Human or AI Chatbot Interactants	2
Wise Beyond Their Years: Testing the Mediated Wisdom of Experience Framework with Children	2
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	2
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	2
If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry: Examining the Mechanisms and Gratifications of Humor in Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences	2
More or Less Likeable: The Role of Behavior-Independent Events in the Disposition Formation Process	2
No Negative Effects of Reading on Screen on Comprehension of Narrative Texts Compared to Print: A Meta-analysis	2
Media as a Locus for Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization: U.S. Youth Report on Discussions and Mutual Mediation	2
Why We Can’t Stop: The Impact of Rewarding Elements in Videogames on Adolescents’ Problematic Gaming Behavior	2
A Window to What We Missed: Effects of Self- versus Other-Exclusion on Social Media Users’ Fundamental Needs, Emotional Responses, and Online Coping Behaviors	2
User-Type Differential Paths for a Media Effect Model: A Test of Self-Regulation Deficiency in Drama Watching for Different Motive-Driven Users	2
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	2
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	2
Social Media, Unsocial Distraction? Testing the Associations between Preadolescents’ SNS Use and Belonging via Two Pathways	2
Mind the Information-Gap: Instagram’s Sensitive-Content Screens are More Likely to Deter People from Viewing Potentially Distressing Content When They Provide Information About the Content	2
Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise	2
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	2
Moral Disengagement Cues and Consequences for Victims in Entertainment Narratives: An Experimental Investigation	2
Media Multitasking Scores and Media Use Hours: A Comparison Across the Standard Stroop Task and an Emotional Stroop Task	2
Being Inspired by Media Content: Psychological Processes Leading to Inspiration	1
Appetitive Food, Aversive Warning: Interaction Effects of Visual and Verbal Cues on Psychophysiological and Attitudinal Responses to PSAs	1
From Sexualized Media Consumption to Salary Negotiation: The Relation Between Chronic Self-Objectification Processes and Women’s Negotiation Intentions	1
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality	1

Designing children’s media: taxonomies as a scaffold for learning and attention	1
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	1
Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time	1
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	1
Too Positive to Be Tweeted? An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Expression on Twitter and Instagram	1
Investigating Responses to Narrative Cliffhangers Using Affective Disposition Theory	1
Mapping attention across multiple media tasks	1
Parents, Princesses, and Powers: An Examination of Young Children’s Engagement with Princess and Superhero Culture Based on Indicators of Gendered Parenting	1
Character Gender and Disposition Formation in Narratives: The Role of Competing Schema	1
Watching Videos on a Smartphone: Do Small Screens Impair Narrative Transportation?	1
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	1
“I Usually Love Your Posts, but I didn’t Like This One … ” the Role of Masspersonal Factors and Valence of Follower Communication on Influencer Responses, Mood, and Job Satisfaction	1
Four Paths To Misperceptions: A Panel Study On Resistance Against Journalistic Evidence	1