New Horizons in Media Psychology

Dr. Peter Winterhoff-Spurk ist Professor für Medien- und Organisationspsychologie an der Universität Saarbrücken und Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift "Medienpsychologie". Tom van der Voort ist Professor für Medienpsychologie an der Universität Leiden, Niederlande.

• Recent Trends in European Media Psychology.- Media Appreciation and Use.- An Audience-Based Approach to Assessing Programme Quality.- Parasocial Interaction with People on the Screen.- Changing Audiences for Changing Media: A Social Psychological Perspective.- The Contribution of Media Psychology to User-Friendly Computers: A Proposal for Cooperative Work.- Aggressive and Emotional Reactions.- Effects of Extremely Violent Audiovisual Products on Young People’s Aggressive Behavior and Emotional Reactions.- Violence in TV News: The Cultivation of Emotions.- Psychophysiological Methods in Media Research.- The Socio-Emotional Dimension of Using Screen Media. Current Perspectives in German Media Psychology.- Language Acquisition and School Performance.- Could Enjoying a Movie Lead to Language Acquisition?.- The English Language Within the Media Worlds of European Youth.- The Impact of Background Media on Homework Performance: Students’ Perceptions and Experimental Findings.- Contemplative Contributions.- Sovereignty and Citizenship: Realms of Schizoid Perception in Britain in Relation to Television’s Mediation of Europe.- Les Effets Violents de la Television.