This study examines political persuasion on TikTok by testing how influencers’ direct address and media source labels shape audience responses to a political endorsement video. Using a preregistere...

From a media psychology perspective, understanding how digital behaviors influence mental health requires attention to individual differences and changes over time. This study examined longitudinal...

Volume 29, Issue 5 of Media Psychology

Social media provide many opportunities to seek and receive support from close or distant others. Hopes of increased mental health by obtaining social support in an instant through social media hav...

Narrative engagement is widely assumed to underlie the persuasive power of stories, yet its internal structure and psychological functions have rarely been examined cumulatively. This meta-analysis...

Research has long documented adverse associations between evening mobile media use and sleep. Yet growing evidence from studies employing more diverse and rigorous methods reveals a more heterogene...

Volume 29, Issue 4 of Media Psychology

Understanding how people perceive virtual humans compared to real ones is important. Based on the mind perception theory, this study investigated whether moral responsibility attribution and trust ...

Politicians’ emphasis on conflict has been linked to public dislike of political parties and political distrust. Previous research has focused on how different conflict types, such as civil versus ...