Playing by the rules: Parental mediation of video game play N Martins, NL Matthews, RA Ratan Journal of Family Issues 38 (9), 1215-1238, 2017 | 78 | 2017 |
Real ideal: Investigating how ideal and hyper-ideal video game bodies affect men and women NL Matthews, T Lynch, N Martins Computers in Human Behavior 59, 155-164, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
The impact of moral expectancy violations on audiences’ parasocial relationships with movie heroes and villains JA Bonus, NL Matthews, T Wulf Communication Research 48 (4), 550-572, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
Increased cognitive load during video game play reduces rape myth acceptance and hostile sexism after exposure to sexualized female avatars GL Read, T Lynch, NL Matthews Sex Roles 79, 683-698, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
Detecting the boundaries of disposition bias on moral judgments of media characters’ behaviors using social judgment theory NL Matthews Journal of Communication 69 (4), 418-441, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
Too good to care: The effect of skill on hostility and aggression following violent video game play NL Matthews Computers in Human Behavior 48, 219-225, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
Skill gap: Quantifying violent content in video game play between variably skilled users NL Matthews, AJ Weaver Mass communication and society 16 (6), 829-846, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
Measurement, levels of NL Matthews The international encyclopedia of communication research methods, 1-7, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
Do audiences judge the morality of characters relativistically? How interdependence affects perceptions of characters’ temporal moral descent M Grizzard, NL Matthews, CJ Francemone, K Fitzgerald Human Communication Research 47 (4), 338-363, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
Bathroom banter: Sex, love, and the bathroom wall N Matthews, L Speers, J Ball Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality 15 (17), 1-11, 2012 | 21 | 2012 |
Things we know about media and morality R Huskey, N Bowman, A Eden, M Grizzard, L Hahn, R Lewis, N Matthews, ... Nature Human Behaviour 2 (5), 315-315, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
How moral expectancy violations influence audiences’ affective dispositions toward characters NL Matthews, JA Bonus Communication Research 50 (3), 263-286, 2023 | 11 | 2023 |
The Cost of Clairvoyance JA Bonus, T Wulf, NL Matthews Journal of Media Psychology, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
Learning to play: How virtual world affordances drive adaptation and learning in Grand Theft Auto A Lang, J Han, X Zheng, A Almond, T Lynch, N Matthews Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games, 179-192, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
The interplay between morality and video games N Matthews Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games, 106-117, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
Life & death: The meaning of (digital) existence T Lynch, NL Matthews Avatar, assembled: The social and technical anatomy of digital bodies, 13-21, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
Moral tipping points: How trait moral salience moderates judgments of narrative characters along the moral continuum. CJ Francemone, NL Matthews Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications 35 (4), 221, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
Explicating how skill determines the qualities of user-Avatar bonds T Lynch, NL Matthews, M Gilbert, S Jones, N Freiberger Frontiers in Psychology 13, 713678, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
The persistence of toxic online messages influences perceptions of harm and attributions of blame CK Monge, NL Matthews, DC DeAndrea Journal of Communication 74 (5), 399-409, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
The effects of side-taking on narrative entertainment and the perceptions of events and characters NL Matthews, CJ Francemone, CK Monge, K Fitzgerald, T Lynch, ... Media Psychology 27 (4), 533-557, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |