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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @mediamosaiclab.bsky.social

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

📢 New article! What happens when a message gets deleted before you can read it? 🧐📱

📢New publication alert! Does multi-screening enhance entertainment or just add distraction? 📱📺

Very excited to start with Morgan Ellithorpe @morganellithorpe.bsky.social, Roselyn Lee-Won and Drew Cingel as new Editors of "Media Psychology". In the first issue, we explain our goals for the journal. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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