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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Qualitative and quantitative investigations of Office fans’ connections with fictional and celebrity couples: Identification, parasocial relationships, and beyond.58
The expansion of the chūnibyō experience in Thailand.45
The influence of peripheral cues on information elaboration during credibility evaluation of Chinese social media messages: Insights from self-reports and eye-tracking experiments.42
What does the Cat in the Hat know about that? An analysis of the educational and unrealistic content of children’s narrative science media.39
Me, myself, and my avatar: Self-discrepancy, embodiment, and narrative involvement in gaming experiences.37
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Short-Form Video Usage on Self-Expansion35
Supplemental Material for Video Games as Conduits for Radicalization: Impact of Exposure to Extremist Recruitment and Authoritarianism on Sexist Attitudes and Aggression29
Random app of kindness: Evaluating the potential of a smartphone intervention to impact adolescents’ empathy, prosocial behavior, and aggression.28
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 Bod27
Supplemental Material for Other-Focus Versus Self-Focus: The Power of Self-Transcendent TV Shows25
Supplemental Material for Postexposure Engagement With More and Less Eudaimonic Films: 10-Year Patterns of Response and the Role of Parasocial Relationship and Retrospective Imaginative Involvement24
Social media usage is associated with lower knowledge about anxiety and indiscriminate use of anxiety coping strategies.22
Black lives matter, Black stories matter, Black voices matter: Black Lives Matter protests, COVID-19, and streaming services.21
Looking to the stars: Validating the existence of para-couple relationships among emerging adults.20
Rating heroes, antiheroes, and villains: Machiavellianism, grandiose narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism predict admiration for and perceived similarity to morally questionable characters.19
A moderated mediation model of the relationship between passive social network usages and life satisfaction.15
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