Media Influence and Health

External reference: https://openalex.org/T12214

  1. Reinforcing the Unreal: Subliminals and the Normalization of Unscientific Body Transformations on Reddit
    Study reveals how Reddit subliminal communities use selective visibility and social reinforcement to sustain unrealistic body modification claims.
  2. How Well do LLMs Assist Parents in Assessing Child Appropriateness of Videos?
    Study evaluates large language models' ability to help parents assess video appropriateness for children under 7, finding models work better as descriptive aids than standalone decision-makers.
  3. Conflictual dialogue did not improve story ratings
    Research challenges the creative writing principle that conflictual dialogue improves stories. Two experiments found no significant difference in perceived quality or audience response with.
  4. Attribution theory is proposed to extend SDRT for unusual narratives
    Integration of attribution theory with SDRT for analyzing emotional coherence in Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, extending discourse analysis beyond conventional logical relationships.