Summary: The present experiment investigated the influence of approach and avoidance motor actions on evaluations of the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP - German Liberal Democratic Party). Participants were required to either flex their arms (arm flexor ...
Zusammenfassung. Ausgehend vom Begriff des “wissenschaftlichen Kapitals“ von Bourdieu (1994) wird der Stand der medienpsychologischen Lehre und Forschung in Deutschland bilanziert. In der Lehre zeigt sich für den universitären Bereich eine stetige, für ...
In this comment on Elson and Ferguson (2013), areas of agreement are noted in terms of the need to thoroughly and scientifically document the boundary conditions under which violent video games most impact players. However it is argued, in contrast to ...
Abstract. Media neuroscience has emerged as a new area of study at the intersection of media psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In previous work, we have addressed this trend from a methodological perspective. In this paper, we outline ...
Abstract. The same media content can be interpreted by different people in radically different ways. We propose a framework that considers both the cognitive processes and the associated mental representations implicated in the ...
Abstract. Boredom is a prevalent and relevant, yet understudied, negative emotion in the field of media psychology. This paper proposes novel theoretical foundations to study boredom as an emotion and its related regulation strategies in ...