The influence of electronic screens on the health of children and adolescents and their
education is not well understood. In this prospectively registered umbrella review�…

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�…

Whether video games with sexualized content do or do not relate to mental health and body
image problems in players, and/or sexualization and hostility toward women, is an issue of�…

One tacit assumption in social psychology is that people learn gender stereotypes from their
environments. Yet, little research has examined how such learning might occur: What are�…

Media permeate our lives and are so omnipresent that we take them for granted and
overlook their impact. Mobile communication devices, the internet, and social networking�…

Fictosexuality, fictoromance, and fictophilia are terms that have recently become popular in
online environments as indicators of strong and lasting feelings of love, infatuation, or desire�…

Restrictive and active parental mediation are widely used to manage child's media use.
Restrictive mediation included limiting child's media using time/amount, or forbidden media�…

This study explores the influence of situational context on parent-adolescent communication
about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues in the urban slums of Ibadan, Nigeria. A�…

This study aimed to identify demographic, intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of youth's online
sexual information seeking. We used survey data from a large, representative sample of�…

Pornography has become widely accessible in recent years due to its integration with the
Internet, generating social scientific and moralistic debate on potential “media effects,” given�…