Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media
channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we …

Over 60 years of research and comprehensive reviews now support Gordon Allport's contact
hypothesis that face‐to‐face interactions between members of opposing groups should be …

From vaccination refusal to climate change denial, antiscience views are threatening
humanity. When different individuals are provided with the same piece of scientific evidence …

Selective reading of political online information was examined based on cognitive
dissonance, social identity, and news values frameworks. Online reports were displayed to …

A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters:
Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their …

We use three online experiments—two selection-based and one forced-exposure—to
demonstrate that increasing the salience of national identity can promote affective …

The present contribution aims to advance discussion toward theoretical and methodological
shifts in the field by tailoring a media-effects model to selective exposure research. The first …

The emerging media environment introduced fundamental changes in the quality and format
of information available to the public, which can now flexibly seek, alter, and disseminate the …

This study deals with two studies that develop and compare a measure and model of
hierarchical needs of smartphone use from US and Korean users. The first study examines …

Social media (SM) are a core component of young people's lives and have been researched
in relation to relationship building and maintenance. While SM are known to be useful in …