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Media Psychology
Volume 12(2), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Fisher, Deborah A., Hill, Douglas L., Grube, Joel W., Bersamin, Melina M., Walker, Samantha, and Gruber, Enid L. Televised sexual content and parental mediation: Influences on adolescent sexuality. 121-147
 
  Little research has been conducted to examine the influence of exposure to televised sexual content on adolescent sexuality or how parental intervention may reduce negative effects of viewing such content 
 
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sexuality
children
interpersonal
family
television
persuasion
 
 
Lee, Seungjo, and Lang, Annie Discrete emotion and motivation: Relative activation in the appetitive and aversive motivational systems as a function of anger, sadness, fear, and joy during televised information campaigns. 148-170
 
  This study investigated whether predictable motivational activation in the appetitive and aversive systems underlies the production and experience of discrete emotions (anger, sadness, joy, and fear) experienced while viewing televised public service announcements 
 
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nonverbal
emotion
television
cognition
 
 
Magee, Robert G., and Kalyanaraman, Sriram Effects of worldview and mortality salience in persuasion processes. 171-194
 
  Individual differences in media effects research have yielded a trove of insights into how media content can have varying effects 
 
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personality and psychology
persuasion
theory
cognition
advertising
 
 
Yee, Nick, and Bailenson, Jeremy N. The difference between being and seeing: The relative contribution of self-perception and priming to behavioral changes via digital self-representation. 195-209
 
  Studies in the Proteus Effect (N 
 
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computer
interpersonal
technologies
cognition
visualization
 
 
Chandler, Jesse, Konrath, Sara, and Schwarz, Norbert Online and on my mind: Temporary and chronic accessibility moderate the influence of media figures. 210-226
 
  To investigate the influence of media figures on self-perception, online gamers reported how central their main videogame character (avatar) is to their own identity and answered questions about their avatar's body size either before or after questions about their own body size 
 
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interpersonal
computer
personality and psychology
cognition