David R Ewoldsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 109690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Ewoldsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewoldsen |
| SIGNATURE | EWOLDSEN D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1603-8276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mechanisms of Partisan News Use: The Roles of Metacognitive Effort and Enjoyment
This study considers how the metacognitive effort and enjoyment that result from partisan news consumption impact news consumers’ intentions for future news use. Participants who experienced incoherence during partisan news use exhibited increased metacognitive effort and reduced enjoyment, which then decreased their intentions to use that partisan news source in the future. Conversely, participants who experienced coherence during partisan news …
Me, myself, and my avatar: Self-discrepancy, embodiment, and narrative involvement in gaming experiences
Supernatural Enemies Affect Outgroup Attitudes Through Strength of Human Identity: A Conceptual Replication of Ellithorpe et al. (2018)
Previous research investigated how a shared human identity may promote interracial inclusion in the context of mass media ( Ellithorpe et al., 2018 ). The original study found promising results of reduced intergroup prejudice through watching the supernatural genre. However, the original results had mixed support to theory, that is, the Common Ingroup Identity Model (CIIM). To test whether the expected and unexpected results of Ellithorpe et al. …
Watching one more episode and reading one more chapter: What entertainment contexts lead to retrospective imaginative involvement
Lessons Learned and Simple Hopes: Implications of the Pandemic for Communication Scholarship
Communication scholars demonstrated a remarkable level of methodological creativity to overcome the restrictions on conducting research necessitated by the pandemic. This methodological creativity allowed us to provide answers to many critical questions that arouse during the pandemic. Now the risk is that scholars will diminish data gathered during the pandemic as tainted by pandemic-related confounds. Certainly, the pandemic offered many threat…
I Help You, You Help Me: Interracial Reciprocity in Situation Comedies Influences Racial Attitudes
In this manuscript, three studies examined the effects of viewing situation comedies on attitudes toward Black Americans. Study 1 was a content analysis of sitcoms that had either predominately Black casts (PBC) or predominately White casts (PWC) and showcased interracial interaction. It is found that positive cross-racial interaction (interracial reciprocity) occurs in both types of shows but is more common with PBC sitcoms. Study 2 was a survey…
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects
The Media Use Model (MUM) presents a metatheoretical framework that aims to unify several existing theories of media processes and effects. It uses a constraint satisfaction approach to coherence to explain the dynamic relationship between a media consumer's motivations, expectations, individual differences, and, primarily, their cognitive processing during media use. The MUM includes six propositions, which represent stages during which a media …
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: A collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal
One of us (dre) is a fan of The Who. Part of the refrain from one of their hits is “Well, who are you? I really wanna know. Tell me, who are you?” Long hours were spent during adolescence pondering this question. Now this question is being pondered again regarding the discipline. The question of “who are you?” is a question that has historically plagued our discipline. And it is a question that one contemplates when taking on the editorship of th…
Development and validation of the Female Gamer Stereotypes Scale
Female gamers belong to a stereotyped social group. The stereotypes associated with female gamers may be associated with issues such as sexism and gender discrimination in the gaming community. However, few tools exist to properly assess the complex nature of the stereotypes held about this group. The present paper describes the development and validation of the Female Gamer Stereotypes Scale (FGSS), which offers a multifaceted measure of the ste…
The dynamic theory of reasoned action: Evidence for a reverse causal process in the context of WHO handwashing guidelines
OBJECTIVE: This study provided a first empirical test of the Reverse Dynamic Theory of Reasoned Action (RDTRA) developed by Boster et al. DESIGN: In a longitudinal experiment, 169 participants were exposed to a WHO handwashing-guidelines behavioural induction, followed by an immediate posttest and a follow-up one week later. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The study measured attitudes and norms about WHO handwashing guidelines, as well as self-reported ha…
Cultivating Adulthood Prejudice Toward Black Americans and Low-Income Individuals Through Childhood Social Media Use: A Retrospective Approach
Previous research has linked lifetime media use with intergroup prejudice. Our studies extend previous findings by linking current intergroup prejudice (race, social class) with retrospectively reported media use in specific life stages (childhood, adolescence, adulthood). Across two surveys (n = 293; n = 369), we found childhood social media use, but not adolescence or adulthood social media use, significantly predicted participants’ current pre…
Using narrative media to satisfy intrinsic needs: Connecting parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-determination theory
Taking advantage of the divergent strategies for instruction at different universities during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study presents a quasi-experiment comparing narrative media use by students at an online-only university (lower social interaction) with those at an in-person university (higher social interaction). To do so, we rely on perspectives from research on parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-dete…
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity
Bounded Generalized Reciprocity (BGR) hypothesizes that expectations of reciprocity provide the foundation for ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation. These expectations can be influenced by interaction with outgroup members, including vicarious interaction through media. This analysis examines how non-Black participants view helping behavior by Black individuals, and how their interpretations of helping scenarios influence intergroup attitud…
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations
Two survey studies, one with a college sample (Study 1, n = 245) and one with a national U.S. adult sample (Study 2, n = 590) examined how media messages can influence attitudes toward Black people in the U.S. A novel contribution is the role of Bounded Generalized Reciprocity, or the belief that members of an outgroup are likely to return a favor (positive), or enact retribution for a wrong (negative) as a factor in the relationship between tele…
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality
This study investigates how object affordances modulate approach and avoidance behaviors in virtual reality (VR). The primary hypotheses are that 1) motivational relevance shapes facilitation or inhibition of behaviors while interacting with virtual objects, and that 2) approach-avoidance can be quantified using spatial and temporal aspects of behavior in VR. An experiment was conducted to track and examine user behaviors during a virtual photo-s…
Gamer Girl vs. Girl Gamer: Stereotypical Gamer Traits Increase Men's Play Intention
Can’t stop thinking about Star Wars and The Office: Antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement
Retrospective imaginative involvement (RII) is a concept that encapsulates how audiences reflect back on a narrative’s characters and events after the story has ended. The current study aims to explicate the antecedents of RII in order to provide initial steps toward creating a theory of RII. Through two studies, we tested the role of familiarity, traits (e.g., curiosity), entertainment experiences broadly (e.g., parasocial relationships), and co…
Honoring the scholarship, mentorship, and legacy of a Media Psychology founder
Alabama is a very different world from where I grew up in the northern Midwest part of the United States. Understandably, I was skeptical when I moved to Tuscaloosa in 1991 to join the faculty in t
Switching Schemas: Do Effects of Mindless Interactions With Agents Carry Over to Humans and Vice Versa
The Revised Ethopoeia Concept proposes that agents should activate human schema in the form of social expectations and rules. However, studies have demonstrated inconsistent reactions to agents and avatars, potentially due to the activation of a nonhuman schema that constrains people’s ability to mentally connect with agents. We first examined whether the schema activated during agent or avatar game play were consistent with and influenced a subs…
Introduction to the forum on the retirement of concepts
In the keynote address at the Haifa Workshop on Media Psychology in 2015, Dr Elihu Katz argued that as he approached what he declared would be his actual retirement, perhaps it was time to consider
Comprehension Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing: Comp Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing
Journal Article Comprehension Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing Get access Courtney Anderegg, Courtney Anderegg School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA, Corresponding author: Courtney Anderegg; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fashina Aladé, Fashina Aladé Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA, Search for other wor…
Entertainment and Expanding Boundaries of the Self: Relief From the Constraints of the Everyday
The temporarily expanding boundaries of the self (TEBOTS) model identifies challenges faced by the self as a fundamental impetus for engagement with mediated narratives. To test how everyday pressures on the self influence enjoyment, appreciation, and immersion into narrative worlds, this study used self-affirmation to alleviate the everyday demands of self-concept maintenance, in an experimental design. When self-affirmed, people experienced les…
Communication Science Theory and Research: An Advanced Introduction
This volume provides a graduate-level introduction to communication science, including theory and scholarship for masters and PhD students as well as practicing scholars. The work defines communication, reviews its history, and provides a broad look at how communication research is conducted. It also includes chapters reviewing the most frequently addressed topics in communication science. This book presents an overview of theory in general and o…
The measurement of positive and negative affect in media research
Preparation and Analyses of Implicit Attitude Measures: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Recommendations
Implicit measures such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Personalized-IAT can be useful tools for studying automatic processes and socially sensitive topics. But their reliance on reaction time data comes with issues for data preparation and analysis. Dealing with reaction time data can be complex – exacerbated by many steps and available alternatives. Greenwald et al. (2003) offer guidelines for handling IAT data. However, these gui…
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects
The Media Use Model (MUM) presents a metatheoretical framework that aims to unify several existing theories of media processes and effects. It uses a constraint satisfaction approach to coherence to explain the dynamic relationship between a media consumer's motivations, expectations, individual differences, and, primarily, their cognitive processing during media use. The MUM includes six propositions, which represent stages during which a media …
Metacognitive Model of Ambivalence: The Role of Multiple Beliefs and Metacognitions in Creating Attitude Ambivalence
Journal Article Metacognitive Model of Ambivalence: The Role of Multiple Beliefs and Metacognitions in Creating Attitude Ambivalence Get access Hyunjin Song, Hyunjin Song 1School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Ewoldsen David R. Ewoldsen 2School of Communication and Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA…
Comprehension Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing: Comp Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing
Journal Article Comprehension Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing Get access Courtney Anderegg, Courtney Anderegg School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA, Corresponding author: Courtney Anderegg; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fashina Aladé, Fashina Aladé Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA, Search for other wor…
Elevation (sometimes) increases altruism: Choice and number of outcomes in elevating media effects
Watching one more episode and reading one more chapter: What entertainment contexts lead to retrospective imaginative involvement
Preparation and Analyses of Implicit Attitude Measures: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Recommendations
Implicit measures such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Personalized-IAT can be useful tools for studying automatic processes and socially sensitive topics. But their reliance on reaction time data comes with issues for data preparation and analysis. Dealing with reaction time data can be complex – exacerbated by many steps and available alternatives. Greenwald et al. (2003) offer guidelines for handling IAT data. However, these gui…
Socialization of Dissonance Processes: Reports of Parenting Style Experienced During Childhood Moderate Dissonance Reactions
Based on portrayals of dissonance as a learned drive state, it was hypothesized that there may be a role for parenting style and related variables in the development of dissonance reactions. This experiment found that both reports of having parents with authoritarian parenting styles and learning the link between responsibility and consequences moderated the effect of an induced compliance dissonance manipulation on attitudes. Reports of having e…
Temporarily Expanding the Boundaries of the Self: Motivations for Entering the Story World and Implications for Narrative Effects
A wide variety of motivations for engaging with narratives have been proposed and studied. We propose that underlying these motivations is another, more fundamental motivation. Our premise is that maintenance, defense, and regulation of the personal and social self in daily life are demanding both emotionally and cognitively. Moreover, any individual self is constrained by capability, situation, and social role. Stories and identification with st…
Elevation (sometimes) increases altruism: Choice and number of outcomes in elevating media effects
Metacognitive Model of Ambivalence: The Role of Multiple Beliefs and Metacognitions in Creating Attitude Ambivalence
Journal Article Metacognitive Model of Ambivalence: The Role of Multiple Beliefs and Metacognitions in Creating Attitude Ambivalence Get access Hyunjin Song, Hyunjin Song 1School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Ewoldsen David R. Ewoldsen 2School of Communication and Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA…
The measurement of positive and negative affect in media research
Preparation and Analyses of Implicit Attitude Measures: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Recommendations
Implicit measures such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Personalized-IAT can be useful tools for studying automatic processes and socially sensitive topics. But their reliance on reaction time data comes with issues for data preparation and analysis. Dealing with reaction time data can be complex – exacerbated by many steps and available alternatives. Greenwald et al. (2003) offer guidelines for handling IAT data. However, these gui…
Entertainment and Expanding Boundaries of the Self: Relief From the Constraints of the Everyday
The temporarily expanding boundaries of the self (TEBOTS) model identifies challenges faced by the self as a fundamental impetus for engagement with mediated narratives. To test how everyday pressures on the self influence enjoyment, appreciation, and immersion into narrative worlds, this study used self-affirmation to alleviate the everyday demands of self-concept maintenance, in an experimental design. When self-affirmed, people experienced les…
Communication Science Theory and Research: An Advanced Introduction
This volume provides a graduate-level introduction to communication science, including theory and scholarship for masters and PhD students as well as practicing scholars. The work defines communication, reviews its history, and provides a broad look at how communication research is conducted. It also includes chapters reviewing the most frequently addressed topics in communication science. This book presents an overview of theory in general and o…
Introduction to the forum on the retirement of concepts
In the keynote address at the Haifa Workshop on Media Psychology in 2015, Dr Elihu Katz argued that as he approached what he declared would be his actual retirement, perhaps it was time to consider
Comprehension Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing: Comp Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing
Journal Article Comprehension Models of Audiovisual Discourse Processing Get access Courtney Anderegg, Courtney Anderegg School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA, Corresponding author: Courtney Anderegg; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fashina Aladé, Fashina Aladé Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA, Search for other wor…
Switching Schemas: Do Effects of Mindless Interactions With Agents Carry Over to Humans and Vice Versa
The Revised Ethopoeia Concept proposes that agents should activate human schema in the form of social expectations and rules. However, studies have demonstrated inconsistent reactions to agents and avatars, potentially due to the activation of a nonhuman schema that constrains people’s ability to mentally connect with agents. We first examined whether the schema activated during agent or avatar game play were consistent with and influenced a subs…
Honoring the scholarship, mentorship, and legacy of a Media Psychology founder
Alabama is a very different world from where I grew up in the northern Midwest part of the United States. Understandably, I was skeptical when I moved to Tuscaloosa in 1991 to join the faculty in t
Using narrative media to satisfy intrinsic needs: Connecting parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-determination theory
Taking advantage of the divergent strategies for instruction at different universities during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study presents a quasi-experiment comparing narrative media use by students at an online-only university (lower social interaction) with those at an in-person university (higher social interaction). To do so, we rely on perspectives from research on parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-dete…
Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is Black vs. White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity
Bounded Generalized Reciprocity (BGR) hypothesizes that expectations of reciprocity provide the foundation for ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation. These expectations can be influenced by interaction with outgroup members, including vicarious interaction through media. This analysis examines how non-Black participants view helping behavior by Black individuals, and how their interpretations of helping scenarios influence intergroup attitud…
Helping and Hurting on the TV Screen: Bounded Generalized Reciprocity and Interracial Group Expectations
Two survey studies, one with a college sample (Study 1, n = 245) and one with a national U.S. adult sample (Study 2, n = 590) examined how media messages can influence attitudes toward Black people in the U.S. A novel contribution is the role of Bounded Generalized Reciprocity, or the belief that members of an outgroup are likely to return a favor (positive), or enact retribution for a wrong (negative) as a factor in the relationship between tele…
Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality
This study investigates how object affordances modulate approach and avoidance behaviors in virtual reality (VR). The primary hypotheses are that 1) motivational relevance shapes facilitation or inhibition of behaviors while interacting with virtual objects, and that 2) approach-avoidance can be quantified using spatial and temporal aspects of behavior in VR. An experiment was conducted to track and examine user behaviors during a virtual photo-s…
Gamer Girl vs. Girl Gamer: Stereotypical Gamer Traits Increase Men's Play Intention
Can’t stop thinking about Star Wars and The Office: Antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement
Retrospective imaginative involvement (RII) is a concept that encapsulates how audiences reflect back on a narrative’s characters and events after the story has ended. The current study aims to explicate the antecedents of RII in order to provide initial steps toward creating a theory of RII. Through two studies, we tested the role of familiarity, traits (e.g., curiosity), entertainment experiences broadly (e.g., parasocial relationships), and co…
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: A collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal
One of us (dre) is a fan of The Who. Part of the refrain from one of their hits is “Well, who are you? I really wanna know. Tell me, who are you?” Long hours were spent during adolescence pondering this question. Now this question is being pondered again regarding the discipline. The question of “who are you?” is a question that has historically plagued our discipline. And it is a question that one contemplates when taking on the editorship of th…
Development and validation of the Female Gamer Stereotypes Scale
Female gamers belong to a stereotyped social group. The stereotypes associated with female gamers may be associated with issues such as sexism and gender discrimination in the gaming community. However, few tools exist to properly assess the complex nature of the stereotypes held about this group. The present paper describes the development and validation of the Female Gamer Stereotypes Scale (FGSS), which offers a multifaceted measure of the ste…
The dynamic theory of reasoned action: Evidence for a reverse causal process in the context of WHO handwashing guidelines
OBJECTIVE: This study provided a first empirical test of the Reverse Dynamic Theory of Reasoned Action (RDTRA) developed by Boster et al. DESIGN: In a longitudinal experiment, 169 participants were exposed to a WHO handwashing-guidelines behavioural induction, followed by an immediate posttest and a follow-up one week later. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The study measured attitudes and norms about WHO handwashing guidelines, as well as self-reported ha…
Cultivating Adulthood Prejudice Toward Black Americans and Low-Income Individuals Through Childhood Social Media Use: A Retrospective Approach
Previous research has linked lifetime media use with intergroup prejudice. Our studies extend previous findings by linking current intergroup prejudice (race, social class) with retrospectively reported media use in specific life stages (childhood, adolescence, adulthood). Across two surveys (n = 293; n = 369), we found childhood social media use, but not adolescence or adulthood social media use, significantly predicted participants’ current pre…
I Help You, You Help Me: Interracial Reciprocity in Situation Comedies Influences Racial Attitudes
In this manuscript, three studies examined the effects of viewing situation comedies on attitudes toward Black Americans. Study 1 was a content analysis of sitcoms that had either predominately Black casts (PBC) or predominately White casts (PWC) and showcased interracial interaction. It is found that positive cross-racial interaction (interracial reciprocity) occurs in both types of shows but is more common with PBC sitcoms. Study 2 was a survey…
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects
The Media Use Model (MUM) presents a metatheoretical framework that aims to unify several existing theories of media processes and effects. It uses a constraint satisfaction approach to coherence to explain the dynamic relationship between a media consumer's motivations, expectations, individual differences, and, primarily, their cognitive processing during media use. The MUM includes six propositions, which represent stages during which a media …
Me, myself, and my avatar: Self-discrepancy, embodiment, and narrative involvement in gaming experiences
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