Don Grant and Karen Shackleford have been elected as new Fellows of APA. They will be “official” in January and inducted at the 2024 convention in Seattle! We have a new Academic Chair of the Student Committee – Ayomide Tikare! She will be supporting with The Amplifier student column and student accountability groups. Danny Wedding’s Movies and Mental Illness 5th Edition will be published early…
Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore, a clinical psychologist and author of many traditionally published books for parents and kids about children’s feelings and friendships, started a podcast for children called Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic. Each 5-minute episode features an audio recording of a question about friendship from a child plus an answer from her. Listen at https://DrFriendtastic.com/podcast or on…
Life sometimes, or perhaps often, tends to take its own course.
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm/ 2017 Volume 6, Issue 1 (Jan) Editor’s introduction. Using social media for sobriety recovery: Beliefs, behaviors, and surprises from users of face-to-face and social media sobriety support. Exploring similarity characteristics, identification, and parasocial interactions in choice of celebrities. Fandom and the search for meaning: Examining communal involvement with popular media beyond pleasure. “Let me take…
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm 2016 Volume 5, Issue 3 (July) Love online: How relationship awareness on Facebook relates to relationship quality among college students. Steers, Mai-Ly N.; Øverup, Camilla S.; Brunson, Julie A.; Acitelli, Linda K. The influence of a scandal on parasocial relationship, parasocial interaction, and parasocial breakup. Hu, Mu| The role of location in everyday experiences of…
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm 2016 Volume 5, Issue 1 (Jan) Editors’ introduction. The price of sexy: Viewers’ perceptions of a sexualized versus nonsexualized Facebook profile photograph. When enemies go viral (or not)—A real-time experiment during the “Stop Kony” campaign. Video gamers and personality: A five-factor model to understand game playing style. Differential neural recruitment during violent video game…
Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD jhogg@fielding.edu I can scarcely believe that it’s already time to bid farewell as president of Division 46. My goal for this year with the presidential initiative Media Psychology and Technology for Good was to promote the perception of media psychology and technology as forces for social good. We live in an…
Frank Farley, Michelle Beech, Melissa Bologno, Laina Dimento, Kathleen Dougherty, Melissa Holloway, Min Joo Kim, Samantha Korn, Courtney Mitchell, Melissa Montgomery, Anne Powers, Lewis Romelus, Steven Schmaltz, Lauren Sullivan, Madison Trout Temple University, Philadelphia frank.farley@temple.edu A review of Layard, R. & Clark, D. M. (2015). Thrive: How better mental health care transforms lives and saves…
Photo: Starting back row at left with Frank Farley, other authors are listed alphabetically; Michelle Beech absent Frank Farley, Michelle Beech, Melissa Bologno, Laina Dimento, Kathleen Dougherty, Melissa Holloway, Min Joo Kim, Samantha Korn, Courtney Mitchell, Melissa Montgomery, Anne Powers, Lewis Romelus, Steven Schmaltz, Lauren Sullivan, Madison Trout Temple University, Philadelphia frank.farley@temple.edu A…
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm July 2015, 4(3) Editors’ introduction. There is broad consensus: Media researchers agree that violent media increase aggression in children, and pediatricians and parents concur. Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015). Manufacturing consensus in a diverse field of scholarly opinions: A comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015). Agreement…
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm January 2015, Vol 4 (1) Special Issue: Gender Stereotypes in Media College Women’s Reflections on Media Representations of Empowerment “Hot Girls” and “Cool Dudes”; Examining the prevalence of the Heterosexual Script in American Culture’s Television Media. Embodying the Moral Code? Thirty Years of Final Girls in Slasher Films. SeX-Box: Exposure to Sexist Video Games…
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