Topic · Media Influence and Health
Most cited papers in Media Influence and Health
What are the most cited papers in Media Influence and Health?
The most cited paper in Media Influence and Health is "The social readjustment rating scale" (Thomas H. Holmes, Richard H. Rahe, 1967), with 11,193 citations. Next come "The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun" (8,178) and "Bad is Stronger than Good" (7,560).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,034 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The social readjustment rating scale Thomas H. Holmes, Richard H. Rahe · Journal of Psychosomatic Research | Aug 1967 | 11,193 |
| 2 | The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman · Journal of Consumer Research | Sep 1982 | 8,178 |
| 3 | Bad is Stronger than Good Roy Frederick Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer et al. · Review of General Psychology | Dec 2001 | 7,560 |
| 4 | Communication and Persuasion: Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change Franziska Marquart, Brigitte Naderer | 5 Nov 2015 | 5,025 |
| 5 | Central and Peripheral Routes to Advertising Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of Involvement Richard E. Petty, John T. Cacioppo, David W. Schumann · Journal of Consumer Research | Sep 1983 | 4,638 |
| 6 | At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence Matthew Lombard, Theresa Bolmarcich Ditton · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | 23 Jun 2006 | 3,719 |
| 7 | Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought‐action repertoires Barbara L. Fredrickson, Christine Branigan · Cognition & Emotion | Mar 2005 | 3,521 |
| 8 | Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication Albert Bandura · Media Psychology | Aug 2001 | 3,398 |
| 9 | Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. James Jonathan Gross · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 3,301 |
| 10 | A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns Kim Witte, Mike R. Allen · Health Education & Behavior | Oct 2000 | 3,236 |
| 11 | What Makes Online Content Viral? Jonah A. Berger, Katherine L. Milkman · Journal of Marketing Research | 22 Nov 2011 | 3,194 |
| 12 | The relation of empathy to prosocial and related behaviors. Nancy Eisenberg, Paul Anthony Miller · Psychological Bulletin | 1987 | 2,559 |
| 13 | The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Melanie C. Green, Timothy C. Brock · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 2,547 |
| 14 | A cognitive approach to panic David M. Clark · Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1986 | 2,434 |
| 15 | Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies. Robert B. Cialdini, Richard J. Borden, Avril Thorne et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Sep 1976 | 2,324 |
| 16 | Evaluation of a behavioral measure of risk taking: The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). Carl W. Lejuez, Jennifer P. Read, Christopher W. Kahler et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied | 2002 | 2,206 |
| 17 | The process of smoking cessation: An analysis of precontemplation, contemplation, and preparation stages of change. Carlo C. DiClemente, James O. Prochaska, Scott Fairhurst et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1991 | 2,147 |
| 18 | Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire Rod A. Martin, Patricia Puhlik-Doris, Gwen Larsen et al. · Journal of Research in Personality | Feb 2003 | 2,147 |
| 19 | GameFlow Penelope Sweetser, Peta A. Wyeth · Computers in entertainment | Jul 2005 | 2,110 |
| 20 | Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning Gordon Pennycook, David Gertler Rand · Cognition | 20 Jun 2018 | 2,066 |
| 21 | Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion Dacher J. Keltner, Jonathan Haidt · Cognition & Emotion | 2003 | 2,064 |
| 22 | Social-information-processing factors in reactive and proactive aggression in children's peer groups. Kenneth A. Dodge, John D. Coie · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 2,059 |
| 23 | Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in Eastern and Western countries: A meta-analytic review. Craig A. Anderson, Akiko Shibuya, Nobuko Ihori et al. · Psychological Bulletin | 2010 | 2,046 |
| 24 | Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the “post-truth” era. Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition | 12 Oct 2017 | 2,008 |
| 25 | Defining Identification: A Theoretical Look at the Identification of Audiences With Media Characters Jonathan Cohen · Mass Communication & Society | Aug 2001 | 1,907 |
| 26 | Shaping perceptions to motivate healthy behavior: The role of message framing. Alexander J. Rothman, Peter Salovey · Psychological Bulletin | 1997 | 1,892 |
| 27 | The Personal Involvement Inventory: Reduction, Revision, and Application to Advertising Judith Lynne Zaichkowsky · Journal of Advertising | Dec 1994 | 1,734 |
| 28 | Separate but equal? A comparison of participants and data gathered via Amazon’s MTurk, social media, and face-to-face behavioral testing Krista Casler, Lydia Bickel, Elizabeth Hackett · Computers in Human Behavior | 31 May 2013 | 1,716 |
| 29 | Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? Philip Brickman, Dan Coates, Ronnie Janoff‐Bulman · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1978 | 1,713 |
| 30 | The effects of involvement on responses to argument quantity and quality: Central and peripheral routes to persuasion. Richard E. Petty, John T. Cacioppo · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1984 | 1,703 |
| 31 | Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors Jonathan Haidt, Clark R. McCauley, Paul N. Rozin · Personality and Individual Differences | May 1994 | 1,649 |
| 32 | On the Use of the Mass Media for Important Things Elihu Katz, Hadassah Haas, Michael Gurevitch · American Sociological Review | Apr 1973 | 1,648 |
| 33 | Assessing the Role of Emotions as Mediators of Consumer Responses to Advertising Morris B. Holbrook, Rajeev Batra · Journal of Consumer Research | Dec 1987 | 1,636 |
| 34 | The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence Peter S. Houts, Cecilia Conrath Doak, Leonard G. Doak et al. · Patient Education and Counseling | 26 Aug 2005 | 1,634 |
| 35 | Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. Albert Bandura, Dorothea M. Ross, Sheila A. Ross · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology | 1963 | 1,632 |
| 36 | Instagram and YouTube bloggers promote it, why should I buy? How credibility and parasocial interaction influence purchase intentions Karina Sokolova, Hajer Kéfi · Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 25 Jan 2019 | 1,611 |
| 37 | Plan 9 From Cyberspace: The Implications of the Internet for Personality and Social Psychology Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, John A. Bargh · Personality and Social Psychology Review | Feb 2000 | 1,517 |
| 38 | Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: the full life versus the empty life Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park, Martin E. P. Seligman · Journal of Happiness Studies | Mar 2005 | 1,511 |
| 39 | Issue involvement can increase or decrease persuasion by enhancing message-relevant cognitive responses. Richard E. Petty, John T. Cacioppo · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Oct 1979 | 1,506 |
| 40 | Hiding feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion. James Jonathan Gross, Robert W. Levenson · Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1997 | 1,475 |
| 41 | Bringing the Frame Into Focus: The Influence of Regulatory Fit on Processing Fluency and Persuasion. Angela Yuson Lee, Jennifer Lynn Aaker · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Feb 2004 | 1,473 |
| 42 | Word of mouth and interpersonal communication: A review and directions for future research Jonah A. Berger · Journal of Consumer Psychology | 19 May 2014 | 1,468 |
| 43 | Forming attitudes that predict future behavior: A meta-analysis of the attitude-behavior relation. Laura R. Glasman, Dolores Albarracín · Psychological Bulletin | 15 Aug 2006 | 1,462 |
| 44 | Party Over Policy: The Dominating Impact of Group Influence on Political Beliefs. Geoffrey L. Cohen · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Nov 2003 | 1,423 |
| 45 | Social media marketing efforts of luxury brands: Influence on brand equity and consumer behavior Bruno Godey, Aikaterini Manthiou, Daniele Pederzoli et al. · Journal of Business Research | 26 Jun 2016 | 1,417 |
| 46 | The prevalence of limited health literacy Michael K. Paasche‐Orlow, Ruth M. Parker, Julie A. Gazmararian et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Feb 2005 | 1,416 |
| 47 | “Fear Won't Do It” Saffron J. O’Neill, Sophie A. Nicholson-Cole · Science Communication | 7 Jan 2009 | 1,409 |
| 48 | Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: Planning, self-efficacy, and action control in the adoption and maintenance of physical exercise Falko F. Sniehotta, Urte Scholz, Ralf Schwarzer · Psychology and Health | Apr 2005 | 1,384 |
| 49 | Ambient belonging: How stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science. Sapna Cheryan, Victoria C. Plaut, Paul Davies et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 1,384 |
| 50 | The dynamics of attending: How people track time-varying events. Edward W. Large, Mari Riess Jones · Psychological Review | 1999 | 1,384 |
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