Psychology of Popular Media

Papers
(The H4-Index of Psychology of Popular Media is 15. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Short-Form Video Usage on Self-Expansion38
Qualitative and quantitative investigations of Office fans’ connections with fictional and celebrity couples: Identification, parasocial relationships, and beyond.36
Supplemental Material for Who Finds Media Violence Funny? Testing the Effects of Media Violence Exposure and Dark Personality Traits31
Random app of kindness: Evaluating the potential of a smartphone intervention to impact adolescents’ empathy, prosocial behavior, and aggression.31
Me, myself, and my avatar: Self-discrepancy, embodiment, and narrative involvement in gaming experiences.30
The psychology of likes: Relevance of feedback on Instagram and relationship to self-esteem and social status.30
What does the Cat in the Hat know about that? An analysis of the educational and unrealistic content of children’s narrative science media.26
Black lives matter, Black stories matter, Black voices matter: Black Lives Matter protests, COVID-19, and streaming services.24
The portrayal of mental illness in popular children's programs on Netflix: A content and thematic analysis.24
Social media usage is associated with lower knowledge about anxiety and indiscriminate use of anxiety coping strategies.22
Extensions of the proteus effect on intergroup aggression in the real world.19
From online to offline: Pathways from active social media use to proenvironmental behaviors through the lens of construal level theory.19
“Using Comics and tweets to raise awareness about gender biases in STEM.” Correction to Freedman, Green, Kaufman, and Flanagan (2022).18
Supplemental Material for Subtle Threat Cues in Marketing Horror and Children’s Entertainment17
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 Bod15
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