Publications

2022

•  Dunivin, Zackary Okun, Yan, Harry Yaojun, Ince, Jelani and Rojas, Fabio (2022) Black Lives Matter protests shift public discourse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Link
• Zheng, Xia, Lang, Annie, Almond, Anthony, & Yan, Harry Yaojun (2022). It takes guts to be a rebel! A dynamic coordination account of the relationship between motivational reactivity, social morality, and political ideology. Politics & Life Sciences. Link
• Holt, Lanier F., Ellithorpe, Morgan E., Ewoldsen, David R. & Velez, John (2022). Helping and hurting on the TV screen: Bounded generalized reciprocity and interracial group expectations. Media Psychology. Link
• Comfort, Suzannah Evans, Gruszczynski, Mike, & Browning, Nicholas (2022). Building the science news agenda: The permeability of science journalism to public relations. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Link
• Ochieng, Jimmy (2022). News sources and framing of responsibility on devolution in Kenya, 2013–2017. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Link
• Chae, Seung Woo and Lee, Sung Hyun (2022). Sharing emotion while spectating video game play: Exploring Twitch users’ emotional change after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior. Link

2021

• Peifer, Jason T., Taeyoung Lee, Gyo Hyun Koo (2021). Selectively sharing satirical news: Strengthening an empirical understanding of how agreement, mirth, and perceived informativeness contribute to the diffusion of mediated comedy. Computers in Human Behavior. Link
• Velez, John A., Keene, J.R., Corwin, M., Elko, S., & Potter, Robert F. (2021). A Visual Interactive Narrative Intervention (VINI) for aphasia education: Can digital applications administer augmented input to educate stroke survivors with aphasia? Patient Education and Counseling. Link
• Frederick, Evan, Pegoraro, Ann, & Smith, Lauren Reichart (2021). An Examination of Michigan State University’s Image Repair via Facebook and the Public Response Following the Larry Nassar Scandal. Communication & Sport. Link
• Cores-Sarria, Lucia, Hale, Brent J., & Lang, Annie (2021). Danger, Sex, and Everything Else: A Comparison of Camera Angle and Camera Distance effects across Pictures of Varied Emotional Content. Journal of Media Psychology. Link
• MacArthur, Paul, & Smith, Lauren Reichart (2021) Summon the American Television Heroes: Nationalism in NBC’s Primetime Television Broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. International Journal of Sport Communication. Link
• Zheng, X. & Lu, Y. (2021) News consumption and affective polarization in Taiwan: The mediating roles of like-minded discussion and relative hostile media perception. The Social Science Journal. Link
• Zheng, X., Li, W., Wong, S., & Lin, S. (2021). Social Media and E-cigarette Use among U.S. Youth: Longitudinal Evidence on the Role of Advertisement Exposure and Risk Perception. Addictive Behaviors. Link

2020

• Smith, L. R., Clavio, G.C., & Lang, A. (2020).  Does visual framing drive eye gaze behavior? The effects of visual framing of athletes in an increasingly visual social media world. Media Psychology. Link
• Geiger, Nathan (2020). Do people actually “listen to the experts”? A cautionary note on assuming expert credibility and persuasiveness on public health policy advocacy. Health Communication. Link
• Yan, Harry Yaojun, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer, & James Shanahan, (2020). Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots. New Media & Society. Link
• Gruszczynski, Mike (2020) How media storms and topic diversity influence agenda fragmentation. International Journal of Communication. Link
• Wulf, T., Bowman, N.D., Velez, J.A. & Breuer, Johannes (2020). Once upon a game: Exploring video game nostalgia and its impact on well-being. Psychology of Popular Media. Link
• Elko, Stacy, Velez, John A., Corwin, Melinda, & Keene, Justin (2020). Rethinking patient–provider care through visual communication. Visual Communication. Link
• Smith, L.R., MacArthur (2020). Striking the Balance: The Portrayal of Male and Female Athletes on NBC’s Primetime Television Broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. Electronic News. Link
• Fritz, Niki, Vinny Malic, Bryant Paul, Yanyan Zhou (2020). Worse than objects: The depiction of Black women and men and their sexual relationship in pornography. Gender Issues.
• Smith, L. R. & Pegoraro, A. (2020). Media framing of Larry Nassar and the USA Gymnastics child sex abuse scandal. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. Link
• Peifer, J., & Landreville, K. (2020). Spoofing presidential hopefuls: The roles of affective disposition and positive emotions in prompting the social transmission of debate parody. International Journal of Communication. Link
• Gruszczynski, M. (2020). Evidence of partisan agenda fragmentation in the American public, 1959–2015, Public Opinion Quarterly. Link 
• Brown, A. J., (2020). Should I stay or should I leave? Exploring (dis)continued Facebook use after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Social Media + Society. Link
• Cheema, S. E., & Velez, J. A. (2020). Internalizing external goals: The relationship between causality orientations and digital badges. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Link
• Sarge, M.A., Kim, H-S., & Velez, J.A. (2020). An Auti-sim intervention: The role of perspective taking in combating public stigma with virtual simulations. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Link
• Geiger, Nathan, Pasek, Michael, Gruszczynski, Mike, Ratcliff, Nathaniel, & Weaver, Kevin, Political ingroup conformity and pro-environmental behavior: Evaluating the evidence from a survey and mousetracking experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Link
• Read, G. (2020) Processing ambiguous social identity: Disclosure of identity and phenotypic prototypicality affect processing and evaluation of persuasive messages. Journal of Communication.
•  Comfort, Suzannah Evans, Tandoc, Edson, Gruszczynski, Mike (2020). Who is heard in climate change journalism? Sourcing patterns in climate change news in China, India, Singapore, and Thailand. Climate Change. Link
• Bellman, Steve, Potter, Robert F., Robinson, Jennifer A., & Varan, Duane (2020). The effectiveness of various video ad-choice formats. Journal of Marketing Communications. Link

2019

• Smith, L.R., Myrick, J.G., & Gantz, W. (2019). A test of the relationship between sexist television commentary and enjoyment of women’s sports: impacts on emotions, attitudes, and viewing intentions. Communication Research Reports. doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2019.1683531
• Velez, John A., Loof, Travis, Smith, Casey A., Jordan, Joshua M., Villarreal, Jonathan, & Ewoldsen, David A. (2019). Switching Schemas: Do Effects of Mindless Interactions With Agents Carry Over to Humans and Vice Versa? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Link
• Lee, M., Potter, R.F., & Pedersen, P.M. (2019). The effects of emotions on cognitive effort while processing mediated stadium-embedded advertising: A dynamic motivational systems approach. European Sport Management Quarterly.  doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2018.1562483
• Smith, L.R. , Pegoraro, A., & Cruikshank, S.A. (2019). Tweet, retweet, favorite: The impact of Twitter use on enjoyment and sports viewing. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2019.1568805
• Geiger, N., Swim, J.K., & Glenna, L. (2019). Spread the green word: A social community perspective into environmentally sustainable behavior. Environment and Behavior. doi.org/10.1177/0013916518812925
• Fox, J.R. & Steinberg, E. (2019). News you can’t use: Jon Stewart’s Daily Show media critiques. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1077699019851228
• Frederick, E., Pegoraro, A., & Smith, L.R. (2019). An examination of Michigan State University’s image repair via Facebook and the public response following the Larry Nassar scandal. Communication and Sport. doi.org/10.1177/2167479519852285
• Lu, Y., & Lee, J.K. (2019). Stumbling upon the other side: Incidental learning of counter-attitudinal political information on Facebook. New Media & Society. doi.org/10.1177/1461444818793421
• Kim, A., Moravec, P.L., Dennis, A.R. (2019). Combating fake news on social media with source ratings: The effects of user and expert reputation ratings. Journal of Management Information Systems.  doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2019.1628921
• Lu, Y. (2019). Incidental exposure to political disagreement on Facebook and corrective participation: Unraveling the effects of emotional responses and issue relevance. International Journal of Communication. Link
• Smith, L.R. (2019). Stand up, show respect: Athlete activism, nationalistic attitudes, and emotional response. International Journal of Communication. Link
• Park, Y.E., & Kang, M. (2019). When crowdsourcing in CSR message leads to dialogue: The effects of trust and distrust. Special issue on dialogue and trust. Public Relations Review.
• Yan, H. (2019). “The rippled perceptions”: The effects of LGBT-inclusive TV on own attitudes and perceived attitudes of peers towards lesbians and gays. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1077699018821327
• McAfee, D., Doubleday, Z., Geiger, N., & Connell, S. (2019). Everyone loves a success story: Optimism inspires conservation engagement. BioScience. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz019
• Swim, J.K., Geiger, N., & Lengieza, M.L. (2019) Climate change marches as motivators for bystander collective action. Frontiers in Communication. doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00004
• Kim, M. & Lu, Y. (2019). Testing partisan selective exposure in a multidimensional choice context: Evidence from a conjoint experiment. Mass Communication and Society. doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1636283
• Hunt, K. & Gruszczynski, M. (2019). The influence of new and traditional media coverage on public attention to social movements: The case of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Information, Communication, and Society. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1670228
• Geiger, N., Gasper, K., Swim, J.K., & Fraser, J. (2019). Untangling the components of hope: Increasing pathways (not agency) explains the success of an intervention that increases educators’ climate change discussions.  doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101366

2018

• Clayton, R.B., Lang A., Leshner, G. & Quick, B.L. (2018). Who fights, Who flees? An integration of the LC4MP and psychological reactance theory. Media Psychology.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2018.1476157
• Geiger, N., & Swim, J.K. (2018). Gendered impressions of issue publics as predictors of climate activism. Frontiers in Communication.   https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00054
• Kim, M. (2018). Parental influence on adolescent preference for television public affairs content: A South Korean panel study. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699018754910
• Kim, M., & Kim, C. (2018). Personality-basis for partisan news media use: Openness to experience and consumption of liberal news media. Mass Communication & Society, 21(6), 814-833.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2018.1506035
• Kim, M. (2018). Neuroticism and information seeking surrounding the 2014 U.S. Ebola outbreak: Evidence from Internet panel study and Internet search trend data. International Journal of Health and Media Research, 22, 77-100.  LINK 
• Lang A., Han, J., Zheng, X., Almond, A., Lynch, T., & Matthews, N. (2018).  Learning to play: How virtual world affordances drive adaptation and learning in Grand Theft Auto. In J. Breuer, D. Pietschmann, B. Liebold, & B.P. Lange (Eds.), Evolutionary psychology and digital games: Digital hunter-gatherers. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Lang, A., Matthews, N., Lynch, T., Almond, A., Han, J. & Zheng, X. (2018). Driving, dating and dying: The destabilization of real world behaviors in Grand Theft Auto. In J. Breuer, D. Pietschmann, B. Liebold, & B.P. Lange (Eds.), Evolutionary psychology and digital games: Digital hunter-gatherers. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Lee, S-K. & Potter, R.F. (2018)  The impact of emotional words on listeners’ emotional and cognitive responses in the context of advertisements. Communication Research.   https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650218765523
• Peifer, J.T. (2018). Liking the (funny) messenger: The influence of news parody exposure, mirth, and predispositions on media trust. Media Psychology, 21(4), 529-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2017.1421470
• Peifer, J.T. (2018) Imitation as flattery: How TV news parody’s media criticism can influence perceived news media importance and media trust. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 95(3), 734-756. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699017713002
• Peifer, J.T. (2018). Perceived news media importance: Developing and validating a measure for personal valuations of normative journalistic functions. Communication Methods and Measures, 12(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2017.1416342
• Potter, R.F., Sites, J., Jamison-Koenig, E., Zheng, X. (2018). The impact of cognitive load on the cardiac orienting response to auditory structural features during natural radio listening situations. Journal of Cognition, 1(1): 39, 1-12. http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.43
• Prena, K., Reed, A., Weaver, A.J., & Newman, S.D. (2018). Game mechanics matter: Differences in video game conditions influence memory performance. Communication Research Reports, 35(3), 222-231.  https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2018.1428545
• Read, G.L., van Driel, I.I., & Potter, R.F. (2018). Same sex couples in advertisements: An investigation of the role of implicit attitudes on cognitive processing and evaluation. Journal of Advertising, 47(2), 182-197.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00913367.2018.1452653
• Read, G.L., Lynch, T., & Matthews, N. (2018). Increased cognitive load during video game play reduces rape myth acceptance and hostile sexism after exposure to sexualized female avatars. Sex Roles, 79(11-12), 683-698. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0905-9
• Sites, J., & Potter, R.F. (2018). Everything merges with the game: A generative music system embedded in a videogame increases flow. Game Studies, 18(2).  http://gamestudies.org/1802/articles/sites_potter
• Hale, B.J. & Grabe, M.E. (2018). Visual war: A content analysis of Clinton and Trump subreddits during the 2016 campaign. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1077699018766501
• Velez, J.A. (2018). (Potential) Incubators of prosocial behaviors: An evolutionary approach to understanding dynamic social video game interactions. In J. Breuer, D. Pietschmann, B. Liebold, & B.P. Lange (Eds.), Evolutionary psychology and digital games: Digital hunter-gatherers. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Velez, J. A., Ewoldsen, D. R., Hanus, M. D., Song, H., & Villarreal, J. A. (2018). Social comparisons and need fulfillment: Interpreting video game enjoyment in the context of leaderboards. Communication Research Reports, 35(5), 424-433.  https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2018.1525352
• Wagner, M., & Gruszczynski, M. (2018). Who gets covered? Ideological extremity and news coverage of members of the US Congress (1993-2013). Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 95(3), 670-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699017702836
• Wulf, T., Bowman, N. D., Velez, J. A., & Breuer, J. (2018). Once upon a game: Exploring video game nostalgia and its impact on well-being.  Psychology of Popular Media Culture. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000208
• Lee, M., Potter, R.F., Lim, C.H., & Pedersen, P.M. (2018). The effectiveness of advertising embedded in televised sport programming: How team performance influences attitude formation. Sport Marketing Quarterly.
• Lynch, T. (2018). Evolutionary formidability mechanisms as moderators of fear experience. In Breuer, J., Pietschmann, D., Liebold, B., & Lange, B.P. (Eds.), Evolutionary psychology and digital games: Digital hunter-gatherers. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Matthews, N. (2018). The interplay between morality and video games. In Breuer, J., Pietschmann, D., Liebold, B., & Lange, B.P. (Eds.). Evolutionary psychology and digital games: Digital hunter-gatherers. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Fox, J.R. (2018). Journalist or jokester? An analysis of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In Baumgartner, J.C. & Becker, A.B. (Eds.). Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape: A New Generation of Research.
• Steinberg, E. (2018). Freedom of the press in Israeli and American satire. In Baumgartner, J.C. & Becker, A.B. (Eds.). Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape: A New Generation of Research. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Tompkins, J.E. & Lynch, T. (2018). The concerns surrounding sexist content in digital games. In Ferguson, C.J. (Ed.). Video Game Influences on Aggression, Cognition, and Attention.

 2017

• Keene, J.R., Lang, A. & Loof, T. (2017). Text on screen: Can emotionally incongruent combinations of media frames and messages elicit coactivation in the motivational systems. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2017.1412323
• Kraus, A., Myrick, J.G. (2017). Feeling bad about feel-good ads: The emotional and body-image ramifications of body-positive media. Communication Research Reports, 35(2), 101-111.  https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2017.1383233
• Martins, N., Matthews, N.L., & Ratan, R. (2017). Playing by the rules: Parental mediation of video game play.  Journal of Family Issues, 38(9), 1215-1238. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X15613822
• Minas, R., Dennis A., Potter, R.F., Kamhawi R. (2017). Triggering insight: Using neuroscience to understand how priming changes individual cognition during electronic brainstorming. Decision Sciences, 49(5), 788-826. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12295
• Myrick, J.G., Pavelko, R. (2017). Examining differences in audience recall and reaction between mediated portrayals of mental illness as trivializing versus stigmatizing. Journal of Health Communication, 22(11), 876-884.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2017.1367338
• Rodero, E., Potter, R.F., Prieto, P. (2017). Pitch range variations improve cognitive processing of audio messages. Human Communication Research, 43(3), 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12109

2016

• Gonzales, A.L., Wu, Y. (2016). Public cellphone use does not activate negative responses in others…Unless they hate cellphones. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21(5), 384-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12174
• Keene, J.R., Lang, A. (2016). Dynamic motivated processing of emotional trajectories in public service announcements. Communication Monographs, 83(4), 468-485. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2016.1198040
• Lynch, T., Tompkins, J.E., van Driel, I., & Fritz, N. (2016). Sexy, strong & secondary: A content analysis of female characters in video games across 31 years. Journal of Communication, 66(4), 564-584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12237
• Martins, N., Mares, M-L., Malacane, M., & Peebles, A. (2016) Liked characters get a moral pass: Young viewers’ evaluations of social and physical aggression in tween sitcoms, Communication Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650216644016
• Matthews, N.L., Lynch, T., Martins, N. (2016). Real ideal: Investigating how ideal and hyper-ideal video game bodies affect men and women. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, 155-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.026
• Potter, R.F., Jamison-Koenig, E. J., Lynch, T., & Sites, J. (2016).  Effect of vocal–pitch difference on automatic attention to voice changes in audio messages. Communication Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650215623835

2015

• Bailey, R.L. (2015). Processing food advertisements: Initial biological responses matter.  Communication Monographs, 82(1), 163-178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2014.971417
• Bailey, R.L., Potter, R.F., Lang, A., & Pisoni, D. (2015). Modulating executive functioning: Trait motivational reactivity and resting HRV. Cognition & Emotion, 29(1), 138-145.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2014.893864
• Gonzales, A.L. (2017). Disadvantaged minorities’ use of the Internet to expand their social networks. Communication Research, 44(4), 467-486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650214565925
• Grabe, M.E., Bas, O., & van Driel, I.I. (2015). Defecting from the Gutenberg legacy: Employing images to test knowledge gaps.  Journal of Communication, 65(2), 300-319.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12150
• James, T.W., Potter, R.F., Lee, S., Kim, S., Stevenson, R.A., & Lang, A. (2015). How realistic should avatars be? An initial fMRI investigation of activation of the face perception network by real and animated faces. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 27(3), 109-117.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000156
• Kapidzic, S., & Martins, N. (2015). Mirroring the media: The relationship between media consumption, media internalization, and profile picture characteristics on Facebook. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 59(2), 278-297.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2015.1029127
• Koruth, K.J., Lang, A., Potter, R.F., & Bailey, R. (2015). A comparative analysis of dynamic and static indicators of parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activation during TV viewing. Communication Methods and Measures, 9(1-2), 78-100.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2014.999752
• Lang, A., & Bailey, R.L. (2015). Understanding information selection and encoding from a dynamic, energy saving, evolved, embodied, embedded perspective. Human Communication Research, 41(1), 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12040
• Lang, A., Bailey, R.L., & Connolly, S. (2015). Encoding systems and evolved message processing: Pictures enable action, words enable thinking. Media and Communication, 3(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v3i1.248
• Lang, A., & Chrzan, J. (2015). Media multitasking: Good, bad, or ugly? In E.L. Cohen (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 39 (pp. 99-130). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Lang, A., Gao, Y., Potter, R.F., Lee, S., Park, B., & Bailey, R. (2015). Conceptualizing audio message complexity as available processing resources. Communication Research, 42(6), 759-778. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650213490722 
• Lang, A., Schwartz, N., & Mayell, S. (2015). Slow down you’re moving too fast: Age, production pacing, arousing content, and memory for television messages. Journal of Media Psychology, 27(2), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000130 
• Lee, S., & Lang, A. (2015). Redefining media content and structure in terms of available resources: Toward a dynamic human-centric theory of communication.  Communication Research, 42(5), 599-625. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650213488416 
• Lewis, N., & Weaver, A.J. (2016). Emotional responses to social comparisons in reality television programming. Journal of Media Psychology, 28, 65-77.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000151
• Lewis, N., & Weaver, A.J. (2015) More than a game: Sports media framing effects on attitudes, intentions, and enjoyment. Communication & Sport, 3(2), 219–242.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479513508273
• Lynch, T. & Martins, N. (2015). Nothing to fear? An analysis of college students’ fear experiences with video games.  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 59(2), 298-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2015.1029128 
• Matthews, N.L. (2015). Too good to care: The effect of skill on hostility and aggression following violent video game play.  Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 219-225.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.059
• Potter, R. F., Lynch, T., & Kraus, A. (2015). I’ve heard that before:  Habituation of the orienting response follows repeated presentation of auditory structural features in radio.  Communication Monographs, 82(3), 359-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2015.1019529 
• Rodero, E. (2016). Influence of speech rate and information density on recognition: The moderate dynamic mechanism.  Media Psychology, 19(2), 224-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2014.1002942
• Rodero, E. (2015). The principle of distinctive and contrastive coherence of prosody in radio news: An analysis of perception and recognition.  Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 39(1),79-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-014-0201-5
• Rubenking, B., & Lang, A. (2015). Appetitive and impulsive: Examining alcohol use via the motivational and self-control systems.  The Social Science Journal, 52(2), 258-265.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2014.12.001
• Samson, L., & Potter, R.F. (2016). Empathizing and systemizing (un)justified mediated violence: Psychophysiological indicators of emotional response. Media Psychology, 19(1), 156-180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2015.1037959
• Sparks, J.V., & Lang, A. (2015). Mechanisms underlying the effects of sexy and humorous content in advertisements. Communication Monographs, 82(1), 134-162.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2014.976236
• Varan, D., Lang, A., Barwise, P., Weber, R., & Bellman, S. (2015). How reliable are neuromarketers’ measures of advertising effectiveness: Data from ongoing research holds no common truth among vendors. Journal of Advertising Research, 55(2), 176-191. https://doi.org/10.2501/JAR-55-2-176-191

2014

• Gantz, W., & Lewis, N. (2014). Sports on traditional and newer digital media: Is there really a fight for fans? Television & New Media, 15(8), 760-768.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476414529463
• Lang, A. (2014). Dynamic human-centered communication systems theory. The Information Society: An International Journal, 30(1), 60-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2013.856364
• Lang, A., & Lee, S. (2014). Individual differences in trait motivational reactivity influences children and adolescents’ responses to pictures of taboo products.  Journal of Health Communication, 19(9), 1030-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2013.864733
• Lang, A., & Yegiyan, N. (2014).  Mediated substance cues: Motivational reactivity and use influence responses to pictures of alcohol.  Journal of Health Communication, 19(11), 1216-31.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2013.872728
• Martins, N. & Jensen, R.E. (2014).  The relationship between “teen mom” reality programming and teenagers’ beliefs about teen motherhood. Mass Communication and Society, 17(6), 830-852.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2013.851701
• Minas R., Potter R.F., Dennis A., Bartelt V., & Bae S. (2014).  Putting on the thinking cap: Using neuroIS to understand information processing biases in virtual teams. Journal of Management Information Systems, 30(4), 49-82.  http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/MIS0742-1222300403
• Rubenking, B., & Lang, A. (2014).  Captivated and grossed out: An examination of processing core and sociomoral disgusts in entertainment media.  Journal of Communication, 64(3), 543-565.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12094
• Wook Ji, S., Michaels, S., & Waterman, D. (2014). Print vs. electronic readings in college courses: Cost-efficiency and perceived learning.  Internet and Higher Education, 21, 17–24.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2013.10.004
• Wright, P.J., Tokunaga, R.S., & Bae, S. (2014).  More than a dalliance? Pornography consumption and extramarital sex attitudes among married U.S. adults.  Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 3(2), 97-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000024

2013

• Kobach, M., & Potter, R.F. (2013). The role of mediated sports programming on implicit racial stereotypes. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 16(10), 1414-1428. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2013.821254
• Lang, A. (2013). Discipline in crisis? The shifting paradigm of mass communication research.  Communication Theory, 23(1), 10-24.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/comt.12000
• Lang, A. (2013). Discipline in waiting.  Communication Theory, 23(4), 334-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/comt.12023
• Lang, A., Kurita, S., Gao, Y., & Rubenking, B. (2013). Measuring television message complexity as available processing resources: Dimensions of information and cognitive load.  Media Psychology, 16(2), 129-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2013.764707
• Lang, A., Sanders-Jackson, A., Wang, Z., & Rubenking, B. (2013). Motivated message processing: How motivational activation influences resource allocation, encoding, and storage of TV messages. Motivation and Emotion, 31(3), 508-517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-012-9329-y
• Martins, N. (2013). Televised relational and physical aggression and children’s hostile intent attributions.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116(4), 945-952.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.05.006
• Martins, N. (2013). Media and emotional development. In D. Lemish (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of children, adolescents and the media (pp. 201-208). London, UK: Routledge.
• Martins, N., Weaver, A.J., Yeshua-Katz, D., Lewis, N., Tyree, N., & Jensen, J.D. (2013). A content  analysis of print news coverage of media violence and aggression research.  Journal of Communication, 63(6), 1070-1087. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12052
• Matthews, N.L., & Weaver, A.J. (2013) Skill gap: Quantifying violent content in video game play between variably skilled users. Mass Communication and Society, 16(6), 829-846.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2013.773043
• Wright, P.J. (2013).  U.S. males and pornography, 1973-2010:  Consumption, predictors, correlates. The Journal of Sex Research, 50(1), 60-71.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2011.628132
• Yeshua-Katz, D., & Martins, N. (2013) Communicating stigma:  The pro-ana paradox.  Health Communication, 28(5), 499-508.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2012.699889

2012

• Bae, S., Eller, C., & Lang, A. (2012). Presence, physiological arousal, and visual recognition in 3D TV. Journal of Communication and Computer, 9, 560-567.
• Herold, D. K., Sawhney, H., & Fortunati, L. (Eds.). (2012). Understanding creative uses of ICTs:  Users as social actors. London, UK: Routledge.
• Kobach, M.J., & Weaver, A.J. (2012). Gender and empathy differences in negative reactions to fictionalized and real violent images. Communication Reports, 25(2), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2012.721087
• Lang, A., Bradley, S.D., Schneider, E.F., Kim, S.C., & Mayell, S. (2012). Killing is positive! Intra-game responses meet the necessary (but not sufficient) theoretical conditions for influencing aggressive behavior. Journal of Media Psychology, 24, 154-165. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000075
• Martins, N., & Harrison, K. (2012). Racial and gender differences in self-esteem and television viewing.  Communication Research, 39, 338-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650211401376 
• Martins, N., & Wilson, B. J. (2012). Mean on the screen:  Social aggression in programs popular with children. Journal of Communication, 62(6), 991-1009. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01599.x
• Martins, N., & Wilson, B.J. (2012). The relationship between social aggression on television and children’s aggression in the classroom.  Human Communication Research, 38(1), 48-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2011.01417.x
• Potter, R.F., & Bolls, P.D. (2012). Psychophysiological measurement and meaning: Cognitive and emotional processing of media. New York and London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• Potter, R. F., & Keene, J. R. (2012). The effect of sports fan identification on the cognitive processing of sports news. International Journal of Sport Communication, 5, 348-367. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.5.3.348
• Ross, T.L., & Weaver, A.J. (2012).  Shall we play a game? How the behavior of others influences strategy selection in a multiplayer game.  Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 24(3), 102-112.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000068
• Samson, L., & Grabe, M. E. (2012). Media exposure and the sexual propensities of emerging adults. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 56(2), 280-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2012.678512
• Tea, B., Lee, C., Park, E. & Woo, H. (2012). A study on the persuasion difference of public service advertising by personality traits. Korean Journal of Communication, 56, 186-212.  [Changhoon Lee, Visiting Scholar to ICR]
• Wang, Z., & Lang, A. (2012). Reconceptualizing excitation transfer as motivational activation changes and a test of the television program context effects. Media Psychology, 15, 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2011.649604
• Weaver, A. J., & Kobach, M. (2012). The relationship between selective exposure and the enjoyment of television violence. Aggressive Behavior, 38, 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21417
• Weaver, A. J. & Lewis, N. (2012). Mirrored morality: An exploration of moral choice in video games.Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(11), 610-614. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2012.0235
• Weaver, A. J., Zelenkauskaite, A. & Samson, L. (2012). The (non)violent world of Youtube: Content trends in web video. Journal of Communication, 62(6), 1065-1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01675.x
• Wright, P. J. (2012). Show me the data!:  Empirical support for the ‘centerfold syndrome’. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 13, 180-198. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023783
• Wright, P. J. (2012). Is internet pornography consumption related to adult U.S. males’ sexual attitudes? American Journal of Media Psychology, 5(1-4), 118-128. 
  
• Wright, P. J. (2012). A longitudinal analysis of U.S. adults’ pornography exposure:  Sexual socialization, selective exposure, and the moderating role of unhappiness. Journal of Media Psychology:  Theories, Methods, and Applications, 24, 67-76.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000063
  

2011

• Bellman, S., Potter, R. F., Treleaven-Hassard, S., Robinson, J. A., & Varan, D.  (2011). The effectiveness of branded mobile phone apps. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 25, 191-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intmar.2011.06.001
• Castronova, E.  (2011). Virtual life satisfaction. Kyklos, 64(3), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6435.2011.00508.x
• Castronova, E., Bell, M., & Wagner, G.  (2011). Virtual assisted self interviewing (VASI):  An expansion of survey data collection methods to the virtual worlds by means of VDCI. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 3(3).
• Cherry, B.  (2012). Challenges of institutional governance for network infrastructures:  reinstitution and expansion of legal innovations. In G. Faulhaber, G. Madden & J. Petchy (Eds.), Regulation and the economic performance of communication and information networks (pp. 1-38).Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Cherry, B.  (2011). How elevation of free speech rights affects legality of network neutrality. Federal Communications Law Journal, 63(3), 591-637. https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/fclj/vol63/iss3/3 
• Deuze, M.  (2011). Managing media work.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Deuze, M.  (2011). Media life. Media, Culture & Society, 33(1), 137-148. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/0163443710386518 
• Fox, J.  (2011). Wise fools:  Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as modern-day jesters in the American court. In A. Amarasingam (Ed.), The Stewart/Colbert effect:  Essays on the real impacts of fake news. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Inc.
• Grabe, M. E., & Samson, L.  (2011). Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair:  Implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news. Communication Research, 38, 471-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650210384986
• Grabe, M. E., Samson, L., Zelankauskiate, A., & Yegiyan, N.  (2011). Covering presidential election campaigns:  Does reporter gender affect the work lives of correspondents and their reportage? Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 55(3), 285-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2011.597470 
• Jensen, J. D., Weaver, A. J., Ivic, R., & Imboden, K.  (2011). Developing a brief sensation seeking scale for children:  Establishing concurrent validity with video game use and rule-breaking behavior. Media Psychology, 14, 71-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2010.547831 
• Lang, A., Kurita, S., Rubenking, B., & Potter, R. F.  (2011). MiniMAM:  Developing a short version of the Motivation Activation Measure. Communication Methods and Measures, 5, 146-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2011.568377
• Lang, A., & Yegiyan, N.  (2011). Individual differences in motivational activation influence responses to picture of taboo products. Journal of Health Communication, 16, 1072-1087. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2011.571336
• Lee, C & Park, S. (2011). The effect of display type on viewer’s attention, arousal, and recognition. Korean Journal of Broadcasting, 26, 84-125.  [Changhoon Lee, Visiting Scholar to ICR]
• Martins, N., Williams, D. C., Ratan, R., & Harrison, K. (2011). Virtual muscularity:  A content analysis of male body imagery in video games. Body Image, 8, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2010.10.002
• Martins, N., & Wilson, B. J. (2011). Genre differences in the portrayal of social aggression in programs popular with children. Communication Research Reports, 28, 130-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2011.565272
• Martins, N., & Wilson, B. J. (2011). Parental communication about kidnapping stories in the news. Journal of Children and Media, 5, 132-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2011.558261
• Martins, N., & Wilson, B. J. (2011). The relationship between social aggression on television and children’s aggression in the classroom. Human Communication Research, 38, 48-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2011.01417.x 
• Potter, R. F., Lee, S., & Rubenking, B. (2011). Correlating a motivation-activation measure with media preference. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 55, 400-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2011.597468 
• Sawhney, H. (2012). Beyond the path of least resistance:  The system quest. Info:  The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media, 14, 20-35. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636691211196923
• Wang, Z., & Lang, A.  (2011). Reconceptualizing excitation transfer as motivational activation changes in a test of the television program context effect. Media Psychology, 15(1), 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2011.649604 
• Wang, Z., Lang, A., & Busemeyer, J. (2011). Motivational processing and choice behavior during television viewing:  An integrative dynamic approach. Journal of Communication, 61(72-94). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01527.x
• Weaver, A. J. (2011). A meta-analytical review of selective exposure to and the enjoyment of media violence. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 55, 232-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2011.570826
• Weaver, A. J. (2011). The role of actors’ race in White audiences’ selective exposure to movies. Journal of Communication, 61(369-385). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01544.x
• Weaver, A. J., Jensen, J. D., Martins, N., Hurley, R., & Wilson, B. J. (2011). Liking violence and action:  An examination of gender differences in children’s processing of animated content. Media Psychology, 14(49-70). https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2010.547829
• Wright, P. J. (2011).  Communicative dynamics and recovery from sexual addiction:  An inconsistent nurturing as control theory analysis. Communication Quarterly, 59, 395-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2011.597284
• Wright, P. J., (2011). Mass media effects on youth sexual behavior:  Assessing the claim for causality. Communication Yearbook, 35, 343-386.
• Wright, P. J., & McKinley, C. J. (2011). Mental health resources for LGBT collegians:  A content analysis of college counseling center websites. Journal of Homosexuality, 58, 138-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2011.533632
• Yang, J., & Grabe, M. E. (2011). Knowledge acquisition gaps:  A comparison of print versus online news sources. New Media & Society, 13(8), 1211-1227. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444811401708

2010

• Castronova, E.  (2009). On money and magic. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 2(4). https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v2i4.861
• Cherry, B.  (2010). Consumer sovereignty:  New boundaries for telecommunications and broadband access. Telecommunications Policy, 34, 11-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2009.11.013 
• Detenber, B. H., & Lang, A.  (2010). The influence of media form and presentation attributes on emotion. In K. Doveling, C. v. Scheve & E. Konijin (Eds.), Handbook of emotions and mass media(pp. 275-293). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Deuze, M.  (2010). Survival of the mediated. Cultural Sciences, 3(2). http://doi.org/10.5334/csci.33
• Deuze, M., Elefante, P., & Steward, B.  (2010). Media work and the economic recession. Popular Communication:  The International Journal of Media and Culture, 8, 226-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2010.493428
• Ewoldsen, D., & Lang, A.  (2010). The measurement of positive and negative affect in media research. In K. Doveling, C. von Scheve & E. Konijin (Eds.), Handbook of emotions and mass media (pp. 79-98). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Lang, A., & Ewoldsen, D.  (2010). Beyond effects:  Conceptualizing communication as dynamic, complex, nonlinear, and fundamental. In S. Allen (Ed.), Rethinking communication:  Keywords in communication research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Sparks, J. V., & Lang, A.  An initial examination of the post-auricular reflex as a physiological indicator of appetitive activation during television viewing. Communication Methods and Measures, 4(311-330). https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2010.527872
• Wright, P. J.,  A hierarchical linear modeling assessment of dual addiction status change in sexual compulsivity over time. Psychological Reports, 107, 236-244. https://doi.org/10.2466/02.13.15.21.PR0.107.4.236-244
• Wright, P. J.,  Sexual compulsivity and 12-step peer and sponsor supportive communication:  A cross-lagged panel analysis. Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 17, 154-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720161003796123 
• Wright, P. J., & McKinley, C. J.  Services and information for sexual compulsive students on college counseling center websites:  Results from a national sample. Journal of Health Communication, 15, 665-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2010.499596
• Yegiyan, N., & Lang, A.  Processing central and peripheral detail:  How content arousal and emotional tone influence encoding. Media Psychology, 13, 77-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213260903563014

 

Publications 2007-2009