OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media Psychology is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	114
Processing of Facial Information Related to Emotional Inferences During Reading of Text and Graphic Narratives	67
Empathy in the Face of Death: Fear Transcendence Effects are Conditional on Empathizing with Movie Characters in Eudaimonic Entertainment	58
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	42
Over-Time Relationships of Direct and Indirect Digital Hate Victimization on Fundamental Needs and Prosocial Bystander Intervention: A Two-Wave Panel Study	40
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	26
Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load	25
Digital Gaming and Academic Achievement: Within-Person Relations from Age 10 to 16 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort	21
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	21
The Dark Side of Fandom: Exploring the Association between Parasocial Relationships with Celebrities and Aggression	20
Reflective Realities: Exploring the Mechanisms of Mirror Dwelling in Social Virtual Reality	18
“I was Absolutely Devastated at This Death”: Refining the Conceptualization and Processes of Parasocial Breakup Distress	18
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	17
Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress	15
The Dynamic and Reciprocal Relationship Between Problematic Internet Use and Loneliness: A Longitudinal Study	13
Beyond the Screen: A Meta-Analysis of How Tracking Levels, Age, and Issue Relevance Shape the Effectiveness of Immersive Media in Health Communication	12
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	12
Associations of Instagram and TikTok Use with Appearance-Based Social Comparison, Body Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem: A Daily Diary Study	11
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	11
Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters	11
Effects of Framing Counter-Stereotypes as Surprising on Rethinking Prior Opinions About Outgroups: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	10
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 and Breaking Parasocial Relationships with Human and Virtual Influencers: An Experience Sampling Study	10

Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	9
Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	9
The Story My Friend Told Me: Examining the Interplay of Message Format and Relational Closeness in Misinformation Correction	8
Lifetime Video Game Exposure is Associated with Internalization of Sexist STEM Beliefs in Women and Men	8
Exposure to Specific Types of Alcohol-Related SNS Content and Adolescents’ (Underage) Drinking: A Two-Wave Daily Diary Study	8
Direct and Indirect Effects of Communication Channel and Perceived Affordances on Perceptions of Support: A Dyadic Mediation Analysis	8
Defensive Attribution of AI Fairness: The Role of Procedural Fairness in AI’s Moral Responsibility	7
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	7
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	7
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	7
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	6
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	6
You’ll Never Walk Alone: How Online Communication Shapes Digital Health Activism as Prosocial Collective Action	6
Daily Relationships Between Adolescents’ Perceived Digital Well-Being, State Self-Esteem, and Affective Well-Being	6
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	6
Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Addiction and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Review	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 Thin Line Between Harmful and Benign: Perceptions of Humorous and Non-Humorous Hate Speech in Humorous and Neutral Social Media Contexts	6
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	5
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	5
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	5
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	5
Cognitive effects of political microtargeting: an eye-tracking study	5
The Impact of Concurrent and Sequential Media Multitasking on Performance: The Role of Task Relevance and Working Memory	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
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	5
From Ads to Action: Femvertising’s Impact on Brand Image and Purchase Probability Through Well-Being Dimensions	5