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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A Longitudinal Test of Political Self-Effects on Social Media	61
Testing the Effect of Sending an Evaluative Message on Perceiving Others in Computer-Mediated Communication	47
Processing of Facial Information Related to Emotional Inferences During Reading of Text and Graphic Narratives	47
How Activated Self-Concepts Influence Selection and Processing of Body-Positive Narratives	41
Examining the Automaticity of Ambient Awareness via Its Persistence Under Cognitive Load	39
Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration	29
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
The Dark Side of Fandom: Exploring the Association between Parasocial Relationships with Celebrities and Aggression	17
Reflective Realities: Exploring the Mechanisms of Mirror Dwelling in Social Virtual Reality	17
“I was Absolutely Devastated at This Death”: Refining the Conceptualization and Processes of Parasocial Breakup Distress	15
Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress	14
Me, My Self-Presentations and I: Within-Person Associations Between Narcissism, Social Media Use and Peer Attachment	13
Seeing Red (And Blue): Partisan Identity, Emotions, and Selective Exposure	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	11
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations	11
Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters	10
The Relations between Parental Active Mediation, Parent-Child Relationships and Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Use: a Longitudinal Study	10
Skype or Skip? Causes and Consequences of Intimate Self-Disclosure in Computer-Mediated Doctor-Patient Communication	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	9
Making it Real: The Role of Parasocial Relationships in Enhancing Perceived Susceptibility and COVID-19 Protective Behavior	9
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
Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression	8
#MeToo Movement Backlash: How Evaluations of Women Advocates as More “Sexist” Weaken Movement Support	8
Early Adolescents Can Extract Distinct Moral Lessons from Narrative Media Content	8

Direct and Indirect Effects of Communication Channel and Perceived Affordances on Perceptions of Support: A Dyadic Mediation Analysis	8
Effects of Framing Counter-Stereotypes as Surprising on Rethinking Prior Opinions About Outgroups: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology	8
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	8
Digital Divides, Generational Gaps, and Cultural Overlaps: A Portrait of Media Use and Perspectives of Media in Thailand	8
Learning Through Rewards: Priming and Identification as Psychological Mechanisms of the Effects of LGBTQ+ Narratives on Inclusive Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions	7
Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress	6
The Experience of Emotional Shifts in Narrative Persuasion	6
You’ll Never Walk Alone: How Online Communication Shapes Digital Health Activism as Prosocial Collective Action	6
Examining the Implications of Negativity Perceptions for Enterprise Social Media Use	6
The Shape of Inspiration: Exploring the Emotional Arcs and Self-Transcendent Elicitors Within Inspirational Movies	6
The Story My Friend Told Me: Examining the Interplay of Message Format and Relational Closeness in Misinformation Correction	6
Achieving Destigmatizing Outcomes by Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion through Combined Entertainment Experiences	5
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis	5
The Imaginative Engagement Scale: Development of an Instrument to Assess Cognitive Elements of Engaging with Fiction	5
Higher Numbers = More Important? Social Media Metrics and Their Agenda-Cueing Effects in Anti-Secondhand Smoke Persuasion	5
Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay	5
Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Addiction and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Review	5
Beloved Bingeable Breakups? The Impact of Binge Watching on Retrospective Imaginative Involvement, Parasocial Relationships, and Parasocial Breakups	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
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
Social media use and well-being: testing an integrated self-determination theory model	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