Psychology of Popular Media

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Popular Media is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Short-Form Video Usage on Self-Expansion45
The psychology of likes: Relevance of feedback on Instagram and relationship to self-esteem and social status.32
Qualitative and quantitative investigations of Office fans’ connections with fictional and celebrity couples: Identification, parasocial relationships, and beyond.30
Random app of kindness: Evaluating the potential of a smartphone intervention to impact adolescents’ empathy, prosocial behavior, and aggression.29
Supplemental Material for Who Finds Media Violence Funny? Testing the Effects of Media Violence Exposure and Dark Personality Traits28
Me, myself, and my avatar: Self-discrepancy, embodiment, and narrative involvement in gaming experiences.27
What does the Cat in the Hat know about that? An analysis of the educational and unrealistic content of children’s narrative science media.24
Disappearing in the age of hypervisibility: Definition, context, and perceived psychological consequences of social media ghosting.23
“Using Comics and tweets to raise awareness about gender biases in STEM.” Correction to Freedman, Green, Kaufman, and Flanagan (2022).22
Black lives matter, Black stories matter, Black voices matter: Black Lives Matter protests, COVID-19, and streaming services.21
Social comparison and state–trait dynamics: Viewing image-conscious Instagram accounts affects college students’ mood and anxiety.20
Extensions of the proteus effect on intergroup aggression in the real world.19
The portrayal of mental illness in popular children's programs on Netflix: A content and thematic analysis.19
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 Bod17
Supplemental Material for Subtle Threat Cues in Marketing Horror and Children’s Entertainment17
Supplemental Material for Other-Focus Versus Self-Focus: The Power of Self-Transcendent TV Shows15
A moderated mediation model of the relationship between passive social network usages and life satisfaction.13
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 Involvement13
Can the social network bridge social distancing? Social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic.13
Rating heroes, antiheroes, and villains: Machiavellianism, grandiose narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism predict admiration for and perceived similarity to morally questionable characters.12
Looking to the stars: Validating the existence of para-couple relationships among emerging adults.12
Social media usage is associated with lower knowledge about anxiety and indiscriminate use of anxiety coping strategies.11
Dark personality traits and anger in cyber aggression perpetration: Is moral disengagement to blame?10
The effects of awe-inspiring nature videos on connectedness to nature and proenvironmental intentions.10
Testing the direct and indirect relationship between media violence exposure and cyberbullying perpetration.9
Reviewer Acknowledgments 20249
Supplemental Material for Rage in Video Gaming, Characteristics of Loss of Control Among Gamers: A Qualitative Study9
It's a “pattern” of time: Exploring flow experience in autonomous sensory meridian response videos.9
Supplemental Material for Physiological Stress Responses to Mental Illness Narratives9
Supplemental Material for Fear of Missing Out and Compulsive Social Media Use as Mediators Between OCD Symptoms and Social Media Fatigue9
Achieving the ideal-self while harming my relationship: Examining associations between self-discrepancy, instagram photo manipulation, and romantic relationship outcomes.8
Supplemental Material for Perceptions of Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Exploration8
Supplemental Material for Queer on TV: Using the Minority Stress Model to Explore the Role of LGBQ+ Television Exposure in LGBQ+ Audiences’ Psychological Well-Being and Identity Status8
Time for digital media but no time for school? An investigation of displacement effects among adolescents of gen X, Y, and Z.8
"The fairest of them all: Representations of bodies across Disney animated films from 1937 to 2019": Correction.8
Losing parasocial friendships over celebrity politics: A cognitive discrepancies approach.8
Women’s exposure to sexualized TV, self-objectification, and consideration of cosmetic surgery: The role of age.7
#Instabod versus #BoPo: An experimental study of the effects of viewing idealized versus body-positive content on collegiate males’ and females’ body satisfaction.7
SPACE to esc: Affective and motivational correlates to adaptive and maladaptive escapism among video gamers—A network analysis.7
The associations between parents’ technoference, their problematic use of digital technology, and the psychological state of their children.7
The effects of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) on modality, mood, and mindfulness (3Ms).7
Media prescriptions for goal achievement: The differential effect of inspiring versus humorous content.7
That’s not supposed to happen! Spoilers’ impact on experience of narratives with (un)expected endings.7
Directional is the new null? A comment on Bushman and Anderson (2021).7
Supplemental Material for Rating Heroes, Antiheroes, and Villains: Machiavellianism, Grandiose Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Sadism Predict Admiration for and Perceived Similarity to Morally Questionab7
Effects of self-objectification on viewers’ narrative engagement.7
Connecting the pro-recovery eating disorder community: An analysis of the language on science, Twitter, and Reddit.7
Shared screens: Scripted television's communal space in a polarized nation.7
What is in a hashtag? A comparative content analysis of fitspiration, body positivity, and body neutrality posts on Instagram.6
Measurement and correlates of celebrity culture hate.6
Supplemental Material for How Anthropomorphic Animal Representations in Nature Documentaries Are Related to Entertainment Experience and Persuasive Effects6
Queer folklore: Examining the influence of fandom on sexual identity development and fluidity acceptance among Taylor Swift fans.6
Solving the puzzle of null violent media effects.6
Supplemental Material for Investigating the Effect of Full and Partial Social Media Abstinence on Fear of Missing Out and Well-Being Outcomes: A Daily Diary Experimental Approach6
Self-simming while Black: Examining a petition to improve black representation in Sims 4.5
Parenting and tweens’ media use during the COVID-19 pandemic.5
Being asked to dance: Evidence of racial bias in audience voting behavior on the television show Strictly Come Dancing.5
Supplemental Material for Personality Perception in Game of Thrones: Character Consensus and Assumed Similarity5
The green side of parasocial romantic relationships: An exploratory investigation of parasocial jealousy.5
Select your character: Individual needs and avatar choice.5
Time travels on Instagram: A longitudinal investigation of parasocial interaction with a historical person and the impact on followers’ morality.5
Stuck in the DMs: The association between introversion/extraversion and self-confidence through text-based communication.5
Supplemental Material for Big Data, Actually: Examining Systematic Messaging in 188 Romantic Comedies Using Unsupervised Machine Learning5
Supplemental Material for Female-Oriented Dating Sims in China: Players’ Parasocial Relationships, Gender Attitudes, and Romantic Beliefs5
Exploring identity and coping among Black viewers of Marvel’s Black Panther.5
Better than scrolling: Digital detox in the search for the ideal self.5
“I see dead people”: Exploring the associations between watching horror and belief in the paranormal.5
Social media use and body image concerns for midlife and older women.5
Supplemental Material for The Costs of Sexualization: Examining Viewers’ Perceptions of Sexualized Profile Owners in Online Dating5
Supplemental Material for Escaping the Pandemic Present: The Relationship Between Nostalgic Media Use, Escapism, and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Exploring the motives for watching horror movies: A replication and extension.5
Young love on the big screen: A content analysis of romantic ideals, challenges, hookups, and long-term relationships in teen romantic drama movies.4
A content analysis method for coding movie content using movie trailers.4
Supplemental Material for Qualitative and Quantitative Investigations of Office Fans’ Connections With Fictional and Celebrity Couples: Identification, Parasocial Relationships, and Beyond4
Spoilers ahead, proceed with caution: How engagement, enjoyment, and FoMO predict avoidance of spoilers.4
Navigating the social landscape of Instagram: Exploring the experiences, motivations, and perceptions of eating disorder recovery content creators.4
Supplemental Material for Strange New Worlds: Social Content in Popular Star Trek Fanfiction Versus Commercial Novels4
Pressure, preoccupation, and porn: The relationship between internet pornography, gendered attitudes, and sexual coercion in young adults.4
“Ur a freakin goddess!”: Examining appearance commentary on Instagram.4
Exploring the association between Twitch use and well-being.4
Uses of media representation in LGBTQ adults’ relationship with their parent: Individual, relational, and sociocultural contexts.4
Supplemental Material for Maternal Technology Distraction and Its Associations With Stress and Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Recognizing the similarities and appreciating the differences? Content choices and perceived (dis)similarity with TV show characters among youth.4
Character immersion in video games as a form of acting.4
Linking adolescents’ exposure to and identification with reality TV to materialism, narcissism, and entitlement.4
Correction to “limiting social media use decreases depression, anxiety, and fear of missing out in youth with emotional distress: A randomized controlled trial” by Davis and Goldfield (2024).4
Supplemental Material for The Portrayal of Mental Illness in Popular Children's Programs on Netflix: A Content and Thematic Analysis3
Empathy, narcissism, alexithymia, and social media use.3
Fitspiration, related risks, and coping strategies: Recent trends and future directions.3
Interventions to reduce the negative impact of online highly visual social networking site use on mental health outcomes: A scoping review.3
Why lurk, why join, and why post? The uses and gratifications of lurkers, infrequent posters, and frequent posters in the brand community context.3
Straw men, bogus claims, and misinformation about media violence: Reply to comment by Devilly et al. (2023).3
Wine mom culture: Investigating social media influence on mothers’ alcohol norms.3
Supplemental Material for Content of Social Media Fitspiration and Its Effect on Physical Activity-Related Behavior: A Systematic Review3
“His fight or flight kicked in and here we are”: Investigating the construction of a perpetrator within a dark fandom.3
Supplemental Material for Problematic Social Media Use Increases With Fear of Missing Out Among Young Adults: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study3
Supplemental Material for Interventions to Reduce the Negative Impact of Online Highly Visual Social Networking Site Use on Mental Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review3
Generational perspectives on pop culture.3
Enhancing brand equity through branded content experience on social media: Developing and testing a moderated mediation model.3
The woman in the (rearview) mirror: Viewers’ attitudes toward objectified car selfies of Black and White women.3
Supplemental Material for Amplify or Suppress the Inspiration? Comment Valence Influences the Reception of Inspirational COVID-19 Videos3
Supplemental Material for Self-Compassion and Women's Experience of Social Media Content Portraying Body Positivity and Appearance Ideals3
If your girl only knew: The effects of infidelity-themed song lyrics on cognitions related to infidelity.3
Subtle threat cues in marketing horror and children’s entertainment.3
Problematic video gaming is associated with poor sleep quality, diet quality, and personal hygiene.3
Social networking sites use exacerbates appearance anxiety in young Chinese women: The moderating role of self-concept clarity.3
Belongingness needs mediate the link between attachment anxiety and parasocial relationship strength.3
Who finds media violence funny? Testing the effects of media violence exposure and dark personality traits.3
Examining the postpartum period through social media: A content and thematic analysis of #postpartum Instagram posts.3
Adolescents’ perceptions of nicotine vaping-related social media content.3
Consuming memes during the COVID pandemic: Effects of memes and meme type on COVID-related stress and coping efficacy.3
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