Every day, the world of media is at our fingertips, whether it is watching movies, listening to
the radio, or browsing online media. On average, people spend over 8 h per day consuming …

Character liking, identification, and parasocial interaction/relationships are terms used in
various literatures to describe character engagement. The current paper synthesizes more …

Using a three-act written narrative, a preregistered 2 (Act 1 Moral/Immoral Character
Behavior)× 2 (Act 3 Moral/Immoral Character Behavior)× 2 (Positive/Negative Narrative …

How is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering
what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug …

The ever-growing textual records of contemporary social issues, often discussed online with
moral rhetoric, present both an opportunity and a challenge for studying how moral concerns …

Morality is a topic that people are increasingly concerned about. Morality is observed and
measured during public acts or when develo** and consuming products, such as movies …

Punishment of moral norm violators is instrumental for human cooperation. Yet, social and
affective neuroscience research has primarily focused on second-and third-party norm …

Moral intuitions play a central role in communication processes, from the selection,
valuation, and production of media content to political campaigning, opinion formation, and …

Guided by the model of intuitive-motivation and exemplars, we content analyzed the
population of N= 734 Walt Disney Studio film synopses to determine whether Disney's …

In the Hollywood film industry, racial minorities remain underrepresented. Characters from
racially underrepresented groups receive less screen time, fewer central story positions, and …