Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2269084
Jiyoung Lee, Callie Kalny, Stefanie Demetriades, Nathan Walter
ABSTRACTSocial media is often viewed as a breeding ground for misinformation, given the anger-laden nature of its content. Despite the persuasiveness of anger and misinformation on social media, little is known about how misinformation surges in power when users are exposed to misinformation-related anger appeals and/or misinformation-unrelated (i.e. ambient) anger. Employing two online experiments across different health contexts, the studies test mechanisms of anger appeals and their individual and combined effects on misinformation recall. Specifically, Study 1 (N = 210) examines the interaction between a misinformation-related anger appeal and issue relevance, illustrating that issue relevance increased the recall of emotion-neutral appeals but did not influence recall among those exposed to the misinformation-related anger appeal. Expanding on this finding, Study 2 (N = 400) investigates a three-way interaction between exposure to a misinformation-related anger appeal, ambient anger, and issue relevance. The findings underscore the role of ambient anger in contributing to misinformation recall for users with high issue relevance and those exposed to misinformation-relevant anger appeals. These results further highlight the complex and conditional influence of anger appeals on misinformation recall. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2021S1A5C2A02088387].
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2255845
Nicholas L. Matthews, C. Joseph Francemone, C. K. Monge, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Teresa Lynch, Matthew Grizzard
{"title":"The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters","authors":"Nicholas L. Matthews, C. Joseph Francemone, C. K. Monge, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Teresa Lynch, Matthew Grizzard","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2255845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2255845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135880153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2256214
Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Nurit Tal-Or
We explored new antecedents and consequences of identification with media characters that are related to concreteness or abstractness of representations. First, we examined how the portrayal of the protagonist’s behavior affects the reader’s identification with her. Participants read one of four narratives in which we manipulated the character’s usual behavior (abstract traits) and her behavior on a specific bad day (concrete states). As expected, when the character had positive traits but behaved unkindly in the negative situation, compared to the other conditions, the readers (N = 206) identified more strongly with her through the mediation of higher situational attributions, i.e. attributing the protagonist’s behavior more to the situation than to her traits. Then we examined the effect of identification on the readers’ concrete and abstract thoughts. We hypothesized and found that stronger identification with the character was related to increasingly more concrete thinking about the protagonist’s specific plans and reactions regarding the situation than abstract thinking about the protagonist’s life in general. Additionally, stronger identification was associated with more concrete thoughts about the readers themselves through the partial mediation of concrete thoughts about the character. These findings may reconcile previous inconsistent results about identification and have implications for narrative persuasion.
{"title":"Concreteness and Abstractness as Causes and Effects of Identification with Media Characters","authors":"Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Nurit Tal-Or","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2256214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2256214","url":null,"abstract":"We explored new antecedents and consequences of identification with media characters that are related to concreteness or abstractness of representations. First, we examined how the portrayal of the protagonist’s behavior affects the reader’s identification with her. Participants read one of four narratives in which we manipulated the character’s usual behavior (abstract traits) and her behavior on a specific bad day (concrete states). As expected, when the character had positive traits but behaved unkindly in the negative situation, compared to the other conditions, the readers (N = 206) identified more strongly with her through the mediation of higher situational attributions, i.e. attributing the protagonist’s behavior more to the situation than to her traits. Then we examined the effect of identification on the readers’ concrete and abstract thoughts. We hypothesized and found that stronger identification with the character was related to increasingly more concrete thinking about the protagonist’s specific plans and reactions regarding the situation than abstract thinking about the protagonist’s life in general. Additionally, stronger identification was associated with more concrete thoughts about the readers themselves through the partial mediation of concrete thoughts about the character. These findings may reconcile previous inconsistent results about identification and have implications for narrative persuasion.","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136072481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2253732
Dorothée Hefner, Anna Freytag
{"title":"Consciously Connected: The Role of Mindfulness for Mobile Phone Connectedness and Stress","authors":"Dorothée Hefner, Anna Freytag","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2253732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2253732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47617501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2247322
Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, Addy Weijers, Anna-Maria Ahle, S. Daalmans
{"title":"How Stories in the Media Can Be Meaningful in Children’s Lives","authors":"Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, Addy Weijers, Anna-Maria Ahle, S. Daalmans","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2247322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2247322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45886173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2246895
Y. A. Chen, Catalina L. Toma
{"title":"To Text or Talk in Person? Social Anxiety, Media Affordances, and Preferences for Texting Over Face-To-Face Communication in Dating Relationships","authors":"Y. A. Chen, Catalina L. Toma","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2246895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2246895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43302535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2242769
S. Lutz, C. Büttner, Dominik Neumann
{"title":"A Window to What We Missed: Effects of Self- versus Other-Exclusion on Social Media Users’ Fundamental Needs, Emotional Responses, and Online Coping Behaviors","authors":"S. Lutz, C. Büttner, Dominik Neumann","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2242769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2242769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44724975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2242260
Davide Pirrone, R. van den Eijnden, M. Peeters
{"title":"Why We Can’t Stop: The Impact of Rewarding Elements in Videogames on Adolescents’ Problematic Gaming Behavior","authors":"Davide Pirrone, R. van den Eijnden, M. Peeters","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2242260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2242260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46724490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2242251
Bryony Davies, M. Turner, Julie Udell
{"title":"The Importance of Social Cues When Browsing Appearance-Focused Social Media Content: A Think Aloud Protocol Analysis Using Fitspiration Images and Instagram Feed Browsing","authors":"Bryony Davies, M. Turner, Julie Udell","doi":"10.1080/15213269.2023.2242251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2242251","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47932,"journal":{"name":"Media Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42246382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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