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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Aug 18

📢 New publication alert! How does coping dispositions (vigilance and cognitive avoidance) affect preferences for fictional versus non-fictional information about climate change?

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 30

📢 New publication alert! Can a digital training program effectively improve media sign literacy in 4- to 5-year-old preschool children?

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 23

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 23

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 23

📢 New publication alert! How does the food eaten while consuming media relate to engagement with characters?

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jul 15

📢 New publication alert! What are the cognitive effects of political microtargeting?

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jun 26

📢 New publication alert! Can personal narratives help destigmatize mental illness?

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jun 23

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jun 23

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 New publication alert! Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 27

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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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 27

@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.

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 27

📢 New publication alert! How prevalent is sexualized content on social media and who is most likely to post it?

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Muniba Saleem @nibasaleem.bsky.social · May 7

This one was a journey. Jobs changed, roles changed, zip codes changed, babies were born, but the meta-analysis kept going. Grateful to the brilliant team (most not on Sky) who made it happen. @stewartcoles.bsky.social
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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 7

@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.

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 7

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Media Depictions of Minority Groups: A Meta-Analytic Review Examining the Effects of Positive and Negative Portrayals on Outgroup Evaluations

After more than five decades of research on media depictions and outgroup evaluations, there remains a need for a comprehensive analysis that includes both positive and negative portrayals across a...

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 7

@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.

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MediaPsychMEP @mediapsychmep.bsky.social · May 7

📢 New publication alert! How do media portrayals of minority groups affect outgroup evaluations?

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