Toward the end of their academic careers, most students are required to demonstrate their
ability to integrate theory and research methodology in their field of study by completing a …

Uses and gratifications is a media user-centered theory of media use and effects. As a
media theory, uses and gratifications posits that people choose from among media and …

With an experimental design, this study examined the effect of source cues (Human vs. AI)
on hostile media bias through heuristic machine evaluation of machine and human social …

There are growing concerns that social media exacerbates the selective exposure of
audience members to content that supports their political views. However, despite the hype …

International metropolises are key sites of outbreaks of COVID-19 cases. Global public
evaluation of the pandemic in international cities is affected by many factors. This study …

ABSTRACT Two experiments (Total N= 393) demonstrated that disparagement humor can
trigger a social identity threat for members of the targeted group resulting in perceptions of a …

Politics is not merely concerned with beliefs and ideology; it also encapsulates components
of social identity. This study examines the consumption of partisan media, via the prism of …

Two experiments (N= 449; 246 men, 198 women) examined how political identity moderates
appreciation of disparagement humor that violates different moral foundations described in …

Recent meta-analyses have shown that different types of narcissism and aggression exhibit
different degrees of correlation. Therefore, the relationship between different types of …

Love of Money” thumped un-ironically in the stuffed ballroom. He was a late addition to the
list of CPAC speakers, and the surprise drew an overflow crowd, the largest in conference …