Day-to-day life is inundated with attempts to control emotions and a wealth of research has
examined what strategies people use and how effective these strategies are. However, until …

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

Marketers recognize digital celebrities' advertising power and effectiveness, making them
influential models of social media advertising. The concept of parasocial relationships may …

In online communities, antisocial behavior such as trolling disrupts constructive discussion.
While prior work suggests that trolling behavior is confined to a vocal and antisocial minority …

This review addresses three questions regarding the relationships among gender, emotion
regulation, and psychopathology:(a) are there gender differences in emotion regulation …

Emotions are central to the experience of literary narrative fiction. Affect and mood can
influence what book people choose, based partly on whether their goal is to change or …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

The idea that recipients prefer messages that reinforce preexisting attitudes and self-
perceptions has pervaded much communication research, but effects of selective exposure …

Over the past 20 years, research on meta-emotion and related concepts such as meta-mood
and need for affect has become fruitful and prominent across a variety of disciplines …