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Category: Media Effects Research / Entertainment

  • Communication Technology
    • Information Seeking
    • Interactivity and Persuasion
    • Internet Use
    • Personalization and Customization
    • Privacy
    • Psychophysiology
    • Self-Esteem and Body Satisfaction
    • Social Media
    • Source Credibility
    • Uses and gratifications
    • Web Advertising
  • Entertainment
  • Gaming
    • Avatars and Online Agents
    • Computer-Mediated Communication
    • Emotion and Video Games
    • Immersion
    • Race, Gender, and Stereotypes
    • Self-Esteem and Body Satisfaction
  • Persuasion
  • Social Influence
  • Student Publication

That’s Funny:

  • Gaming
  • Immersion
  • Entertainment

To Face or Not to Face? Response Strategies to Cope with Face Threat on Instagram

  • Communication Technology
  • Web Advertising
  • Social Media
  • Internet Use
  • Entertainment
  • Persuasion

Self Representative Behaviors Among Instagram Users and their Effect of the Nature of Posts

  • Communication Technology
  • Social Media
  • Entertainment

The effects review modality and genre on perceived source credibility of video games reviews

  • Communication Technology
  • Source Credibility
  • Gaming
  • Entertainment

The Role of Affordance Based Gratifications in the Selection of Media Content and Devices

  • Communication Technology
  • Entertainment

Does familiarity breed enjoyment?

  • Entertainment

Meaningfully moved, but emotionally mixed

  • Entertainment

The therapeutic effects of cinema

  • Entertainment

The effects of emotion on creativity

  • Entertainment

Do we improve, disrupt, or embrace sadness? exploring sadness-based media choice and its anticipated

  • Entertainment

Toward an understanding of the emotive structure and motivational systems and their influence on th

  • Entertainment

The effects of narrative media on self-perceptions: The role of identification and narrative engage

  • Entertainment

Positive mood induction effects of television programs on political messages

  • Entertainment

Do we improve, disrupt, or embrace sadness? exploring sadness-based media choice and its anticipate

  • Entertainment
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