MediaPsychMEP
@mediapsychmep.bsky.social
Media Psychology is an academic journal that publishes theoretically oriented, empirical research about media uses, processes, and effects.
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Approaching Climate Change Through Fiction? The Effects of Coping Dispositions on Preferences for Climate Fiction Versus Non-Fiction
Climate change is a psychological threat. This research investigates how coping dispositions (vigilance and cognitive avoidance) affect preferences for fictional versus non-fictional information ab...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Julia R. Winkler & Markus Appel find across 2 experiments that dispositional avoidance predicted lower interest in climate books. Higher preference for nonfiction over fiction was observed for individuals low in avoidance, whereas highly avoidant individuals showed no preference.
August 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Julia R. Winkler & Markus Appel find across 2 experiments that dispositional avoidance predicted lower interest in climate books. Higher preference for nonfiction over fiction was observed for individuals low in avoidance, whereas highly avoidant individuals showed no preference.
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A Digital Training Program Fostering Media Sign Literacy in Preschool Children. An Evaluation Study
Despite the increasing importance of media literacy for preschool children, no scientifically proven measure exists for the training of this skill. We therefore designed a digital training program ...
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July 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Gerigk and colleagues find that digital training did improve media sign literacy and letter knowledge, but not mathematical compentency, in 4- to 5-year-old children compared to a control group that received no training.
July 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Gerigk and colleagues find that digital training did improve media sign literacy and letter knowledge, but not mathematical compentency, in 4- to 5-year-old children compared to a control group that received no training.
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Sweet love, bitter breakup: Exploring the impact of food intake on identification with media characters
Previous research has documented the effects of media engagement on food consumption. In this study, we explore the reverse effects of eating food of different tastes on engagement with media chara...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Razpurker-Apfeld and Tal-Or findings support the similarity-identification hypothesis, demonstrating that similarity between viewers’ taste experiences and protagonists’ displayed emotions increased character identification.
July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Razpurker-Apfeld and Tal-Or findings support the similarity-identification hypothesis, demonstrating that similarity between viewers’ taste experiences and protagonists’ displayed emotions increased character identification.
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Cognitive effects of political microtargeting: an eye-tracking study
Political microtargeting (PMT) is theorized to impact citizens’ attention and cognitive processes required for coping with persuasive messages. The empirical basis for these assumptions is limited....
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July 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Noetzel and colleagues use a 2x2 mixed-design experiment to show that that issue and political fit increased first pass dwell time, but only political fit increased total dwell time.
July 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Noetzel and colleagues use a 2x2 mixed-design experiment to show that that issue and political fit increased first pass dwell time, but only political fit increased total dwell time.
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Stories to Fight Stereotypes: Using Personal Narratives to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma
This study concerns the narrative approach to reducing mental illness stigma. It uses an experimental methodology to examine the effects of disclosing (vs. not disclosing) recovery narratives in th...
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June 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Lu and colleagues find that disclosing recovery narratives leads to less social distancing than not disclosing, and this effect is partially mediated by the elicitation of greater perspective-taking when the story is told from the third-person perspective.
June 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Lu and colleagues find that disclosing recovery narratives leads to less social distancing than not disclosing, and this effect is partially mediated by the elicitation of greater perspective-taking when the story is told from the third-person perspective.
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Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress
Communication with romantic and sexual partners is important for adolescent well-being. Features of digital media, such as limited social cues and asynchronous messaging, transform social interacti...
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June 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Maheux and colleagues find that digital-only communication was common for sexual and relationship discussions, but having some in-person communication (rather than exclusively digital) was linked to better contraceptive use and higher sexual and relationship satisfaction.
June 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Maheux and colleagues find that digital-only communication was common for sexual and relationship discussions, but having some in-person communication (rather than exclusively digital) was linked to better contraceptive use and higher sexual and relationship satisfaction.
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Adolescents’ Sexualized Self-Presentations on Social Media: A Cross-National Data Donation Study
Scholars, educators, and policymakers have expressed concerns about the sexualization of youth in popular social media platforms. Yet little is known about the prevalence of sexualized content on s...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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@femkekonings.bsky.social found that almost four in ten adolescents had recently posted sexualized visual content on social media, with girls showing three times as much sexualization in their social media data compared to boys.
May 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@femkekonings.bsky.social found that almost four in ten adolescents had recently posted sexualized visual content on social media, with girls showing three times as much sexualization in their social media data compared to boys.
@nibasaleem.bsky.social and colleagues’ meta-analysis reveals that negative media depictions of ethnic minorities lead to unfavorable evaluations of these groups, while positive portrayals produce the opposite effect.
May 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
@nibasaleem.bsky.social and colleagues’ meta-analysis reveals that negative media depictions of ethnic minorities lead to unfavorable evaluations of these groups, while positive portrayals produce the opposite effect.