Dolf Zillmann
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American psychologist specialising in media psychology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dolf Zillmann is dean emeritus, and professor of information sciences, communication and psychology at the University of Alabama . Zillmann predominantly conducted research in media psychology, a branch of psychology focused on the effects of media consumption on human affect, developing and expanding a range of theories within media psychology and communication. His work centred on the relation between aggression, emotion, and arousal through media consumption, predominantly in pornography and violent genres of movie and television. His research also includes the effects of music consumption, video games, and sports.
Dolf Zillmann's Published Works
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Published Works
- Media effects : advances in theory and research (2002) (1741)
- Excitation transfer in communication-mediated aggressive behavior (1971) (669)
- Media entertainment: The psychology of its appeal. (2000) (624)
- Mood Management Through Communication Choices (1988) (566)
- Responding to the screen : reception and reaction processes (1991) (421)
- Costs and benefits of allegiance : changes in fans' self-ascribed competencies after team victory versus defeat (1992) (417)
- Perspectives on Media Effects (1986) (339)
- Using television to alleviate boredom and stress: Selective exposure as a function of induced excitational states (1984) (285)
- Hostility and Aggression (1979) (284)
- Mood Management via the Digital Jukebox (2002) (282)
- Exemplification in communication: The influence of case reports on the perception of issues. (2012) (280)
- Exemplification Effects in the Promotion of Safety and Health (2006) (280)
- Media effects: Advances in theory and research, 2nd ed. (2002) (278)
- Pornography and Sexual Callousness, and the Trivialization of Rape (1982) (267)
- Mechanisms of emotional involvement with drama (1995) (257)
- Mood Management in the Context of Selective Exposure Theory (2000) (253)
- Excitation transfer from physical exercise to subsequent aggressive behavior. (1972) (252)
- Selective Exposure To Communication (2013) (251)
- Exemplification Theory: Judging the Whole by Some of Its Parts (1999) (232)
- Enhancement of experienced sexual arousal in response to erotic stimuli through misattribution of unrelated residual excitation. (1975) (227)
- Musical taste in adolescence. (1997) (221)
- Empathy: Affect from bearing witness to the emotions of others. (1991) (217)
- Pornography's Impact on Sexual Satisfaction1 (1988) (206)
- Exemplification Theory of Media Influence (2002) (200)
- Relationship Between College Teachers' Use of Humor in the Classroom and Students' Evaluations of Their Teachers (1980) (199)
- Exaggerated Versus Representative Exemplification in News Reports (1994) (196)
- . MOOD MANAGEMENT: USING ENTERTAINMENT TO FULL ADVANTAGE (2015) (190)
- Influence of unrestrained access to erotica on adolescents' and young adults' dispositions toward sexuality. (2000) (184)
- Video Games and the Pleasures of Control (2000) (183)
- Reading between the Photographs: The Influence of Incidental Pictorial Information on Issue Perception (2000) (182)
- Cognition‐excitation interdependences in aggressive behavior (1988) (177)
- Effects of Massive Exposure to Pornography (1984) (173)
- The Psychology of Suspense in Dramatic Exposition (2013) (172)
- Effects of Photographs in News-Magazine Reports on issue Perception (1999) (171)
- Effect of residual excitation on the emotional response to provocation and delayed aggressive behavior. (1974) (163)
- Effects of Photographs on the Selective Reading of News Reports (2001) (159)
- Effects of Victim Exemplification in Television News on Viewer Perception of Social Issues (1996) (156)
- Emotional arousal in the facilitation of aggression through communication (1975) (145)
- Teachers’ humor in the college classroom (1979) (145)
- Directionality of transitory dominance as a communication variable affecting humor appreciation. (1972) (141)
- Attribution of apparent arousal and proficiency of recovery from sympathetic activation affecting excitation transfer to aggressive behavior (1974) (139)
- Enjoyment From Sports Spectatorship (2012) (134)
- Effects of an opposite-gender companion's affect to horror on distress, delight, and attraction. (1986) (132)
- Pornography, sexual callousness, and the trivialization of rape. (1982) (130)
- Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography on Family Values (1988) (129)
- Effects of Exemplification in News Reports on the Perception of Social Issues (1996) (124)
- Effects of Lead Framing on Selective Exposure to Internet News Reports (2004) (123)
- Commentary as a Substitute for Action. (1977) (123)
- Imagery Effects on the Selective Reading of Internet Newsmagazines (2003) (122)
- Effect of timing of information about mitigating circumstances on emotional responses to provocation and retaliatory behavior (1976) (119)
- Viewer's Moral Sanction of Retribution in the Appreciation of Dramatic Presentations. (1975) (117)
- Enhancement of humor appreciation by transferred excitation. (1974) (113)
- The role of empathic distress in the enjoyment of cinematic tragedy (1995) (110)
- Acquisition of information from educational television programs as a function of differently paced humorous inserts. (1980) (109)
- The Effect of Affective States on Selective Exposure to Televised Entertainment Fare1 (1980) (106)
- Sports and Spectators: Commentary and Appreciation (1982) (101)
- Drama in Sports Commentary (1977) (95)
- Effects of Salience Dimensions of Informational Utility on Selective Exposure to Online News (2003) (92)
- THE GENDER GAP IN THE ENJOYMENT OF TELEVISED SPORTS (1998) (92)
- Effects of Associating with Musical Genres on Heterosexual Attraction (1989) (89)
- The effect of suspense and its resolution on the appreciation of dramatic presentations (1975) (86)
- Children's likes and dislikes in entertainment programs. (2000) (84)
- THE THRILL OF A CLOSE GAME (1997) (83)
- The logic of suspense and mystery. (1991) (82)
- Impression-formation effects of printed news varying in descriptive precision and exemplifications. (1992) (82)
- The appeal of rough‐and‐tumble play in televised professional football (1981) (81)
- Excitation and hedonic valence in the effect of erotica on motivated Intermale aggression (1981) (81)
- Effects of Prolonged Exposure to Gratuitous Media Violence on Provoked and Unprovoked Hostile Behavior1 (1999) (81)
- The effect of affective state and emotional arousal on music appreciation. (1973) (73)
- Music and Music Videos (2000) (72)
- Women's Comedy Preferences During the Menstrual Cycle (1987) (70)
- Radical Rap: Does It Further Ethnic Division? (1995) (69)
- Stereotyping Effect of Black Women's Sexual Rap on White Audiences (1997) (69)
- Does humor facilitate coping with physical discomfort? (1993) (69)
- Mood Influence on the Appeal of Bad News (1994) (68)
- A Disposition Theory of Humour and Mirth (2017) (68)
- Effects of Disturbing Televised Events on the Acquisition of Information from Subsequently Presented Commercials (1991) (68)
- Appeal of Love Themes in Popular Music (2003) (68)
- Theory of affective dynamics: Emotions and moods. (2003) (66)
- Strength and Duration of the Effect of Aggressive,, Violent, and Erotic Communications On Subsequent Aggressive Behavior (1974) (65)
- SHIFTING PREFERENCES IN PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION (1986) (65)
- Using Humor to Promote Learning in the Classroom. (1988) (64)
- Enjoyment and consumption of defiant rock music as a function of adolescent rebelliousness (1991) (64)
- Loneliness of Adolescents and Their Choice and Enjoyment of Love-Celebrating versus Love-Lamenting Popular Music (2000) (62)
- News as nonfiction theater: How dispositions toward the public cast of characters affect reactions (1998) (62)
- Drama-Induced Affect and Pain Sensitivity (1996) (62)
- Rock, rap, and rebellion: comparisons of traits predicting selective exposure to defiant music (2003) (61)
- Dramaturgy for Emotions from Fictional Narration. (2006) (61)
- Psychoticism in the effect of prolonged exposure to gratuitous media violence on the acceptance of violence as a preferred means of conflict resolution (1997) (59)
- The Impact of Quotation in News Reports on Issue Perception (1993) (59)
- Uses and Effects of Humor in Educational Ventures (1983) (58)
- Irrelevance of Mitigating Circumstances in Retaliatory Behavior at High Levels of Excitation. (1975) (57)
- Empathy: Affective Reactivity to Others' Emotional Experiences. (2013) (56)
- Effects of Disturbing News on Recall of Subsequently Presented News (1990) (55)
- Children's Sex‐Stereotyped Self‐Socialization Through Selective Exposure to Entertainment: Cross‐Cultural Experiments in Germany, China, and the United States (2005) (55)
- The Coming of Media Entertainment (2000) (54)
- Profile: Perception of threatening events in the emotional aftermath of a televised college football game (1992) (54)
- Pornography and men's sexual callousness toward women. (1989) (54)
- Motivated aggressiveness perpetuated by exposure to aggressive films and reduced by exposure to nonaggressive films (1973) (53)
- Rhetorical Elicitation of Agreement in Persuasion. (1972) (52)
- Misattribution theory of tendentious humor (1980) (52)
- What mediates the effects of mild erotica on annoyance and hostile behavior in males (1977) (51)
- Effect of Erotica on Young Men's Aesthetic Perception of Their Female Sexual Partners (1984) (50)
- Selective Exposure to and Acquisition of Information from Educational Television Programs as a Function of Appeal and Tempo of Background Music. (1982) (50)
- Exploring the Relation between Personality and the Appreciation of Rock Music (1996) (50)
- Brutality of assault in political cartoons affecting humor appreciation (1974) (49)
- Mental control of angry aggression. (1993) (49)
- Sports on the Screen (2000) (48)
- Conflict and Suspense in Drama (2000) (47)
- Retaliatory equity as a factor in humor appreciation (1974) (46)
- The Respondent Gender Gap (2000) (45)
- Selective Exposure to Educational Television Programs as a Function of Differently Paced Humorous Inserts. (1981) (44)
- Image Effects in the Appreciation of Video Rock (1987) (43)
- Gender differences in humor appreciation (1988) (43)
- Effects of Citation in Exemplifying Testimony on Issue Perception (1998) (43)
- Female Responses To Provocation After Exposure To Aggressive and Erotic Films (1978) (42)
- Effect of intensification of annoyance through unrelated residual excitation on substantially delayed hostile behavior (1979) (41)
- Effects of gender roles and self perceptions on affective reactions to horror films (1989) (41)
- Effects of upbeat stories in broadcast news (1994) (40)
- Fear and Victimization: Exposure to Television and Perceptions of Crime and Fear (1984) (40)
- Effects of Humorous Disparagement of Self, Friend, and Enemy (1976) (36)
- Exemplification in communication (2000) (36)
- Personality and Entertainment Preferences (2000) (36)
- Relationship between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Physiological Responses to Films (1978) (36)
- WOMEN SPORTS REPORTERS: HAVE THEY CAUGHT UP? (1994) (36)
- Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography (2012) (36)
- Empathetic perception of emotional displays in films as a function of hedonic and excitatory state prior to exposure (1974) (34)
- Disgust in humor: Its appeal to adolescents (1997) (34)
- The Mediating Effect of the Intervention Potential of Communications on Displaced Aggressiveness and Retaliatory Behavior (1977) (32)
- College Students' Perception of Lecturers Using Humor (1981) (31)
- Sports Violence and the Media (1983) (31)
- Provoked and unprovoked aggressiveness in athletes (1974) (31)
- Does tragic drama have redeeming value (1998) (30)
- Quantitative Literacy and Affective Reactivity in Processing Statistical Information and Case Histories in the News (2011) (30)
- Pornography : Research Advances and Policy Considerations (2012) (30)
- Social Costs of Smoking: Effects of Tobacco Smoke on Hostile Behavior1 (1981) (29)
- Chapter 2: Using Humor to Promote Learning in the Classroom (1989) (29)
- Quantitative Media Literacy: Individual Differences in Dealing with Numbers in the News (2009) (28)
- Aggressive personality traits in the effects of violent imagery on unprovoked impulsive aggression (2007) (27)
- Emotional reactions to narratives (2001) (27)
- Brain Imaging-An Introduction to a New Approach to Studying Media Processes and Effects (2006) (27)
- Company Affiliation and Communicative Ability: How Perceived Organizational Ties Influence Source Persuasiveness in a Company-Negative News Environment (2002) (26)
- Enjoyment of a Televised Sport Contest under Different Social Conditions of Viewing (1978) (25)
- Love Lamentation in Pop Songs: Music for Unhappy Lovers? (2004) (25)
- Sex on Entertainment Television (2000) (25)
- The Effect of Erotica Featuring Sadomasochism and Bestiality on Motivated Intermale Aggression (1981) (24)
- The Persuasive Effectiveness of the Peer Appeal and a Communicator's First-Hand Experience (1976) (24)
- Effects of erotica on retaliatory behavior as a function of level of prior provocation. (1982) (23)
- Relationship between Humor in Introductory Textbooks and Students' Evaluations of the Texts' Appeal and Effectiveness (1982) (22)
- Connections between Sexuality and Aggression (1984) (22)
- Effects of Humorous Distortions on Children's Learning from Educational Television. (1984) (22)
- Rhetorical Elicitation of Concession in Persuasion (1974) (22)
- What mediates the effect of mild erotica on annoyance and hostile behavior in males? (1977) (21)
- Residual emotional arousal as a distractor in persuasion. (1974) (21)
- Induction of Curiosity via Rhetorical Questions and its Effect on the Learning of Factual Materials. (1973) (21)
- Media, children and the family (1994) (20)
- Effects of Salient News Items on Information Acquisition and Issue Perception (2002) (20)
- Humor in children's educational television (1979) (20)
- Effects of Humorous Distortions on Children's Learning from Educational Television: Further Evidence. (1988) (20)
- Effects of story sequencing on affective reactions to broadcast news (1991) (20)
- The effect of soft‐core and hard‐core erotica on provoked and unprovoked hostile behavior (1981) (19)
- Laughing Matter: A Symposium: Putdown Humor. (1976) (19)
- Media, children, and the family : social scientific, psychodynamic, and clinical perspectives (2013) (19)
- The Aesthetics of Media Fare (2000) (19)
- Pacifying effect of happy ending of communications involving aggression. (1973) (18)
- Violence and the Enjoyment of Media Sports (2002) (16)
- Guidelines for the Effective Use of Humor in Children's Educational Television Programs. (1989) (16)
- Effect of alcoholic intoxication on the appreciation of different types of humor. (1985) (15)
- The oprahization of America: Sympathetic crime talk and leniency (1999) (15)
- Sex discrimination in prime time humor (1977) (15)
- Pornography and social science research (1983) (14)
- Humor in Communication Textbooks. (1980) (13)
- The Aura of Tobacco Smoke: Cigars and Cigarettes as Image Makers (2002) (13)
- The Hebron massacre, selective reports of Jewish reactions, and perceptions of volatility in Israel (1996) (12)
- Excitation Transfer Theory (2008) (12)
- How to Report Quantitative Information in News Stories (2009) (12)
- CHILDREN'S IMITATION OF A RIDICULED MODEL (1983) (12)
- Human Face in News Important but Base-Rate Data Inform More (2012) (11)
- Affect-Talk and Its Kin (2000) (11)
- Humour and Communication: Introduction to Symposium (1977) (11)
- Pornography and Behavior: Alternative Explanations (1987) (9)
- The Methods and Merits of Pornography Research (1988) (8)
- Experience and empathy: affective reactions to witnessing childbirth. (1978) (8)
- The Promotion of Violence by the Mainstream Media of Communication (2016) (5)
- Media Influence, Public Policy, and the Family (2013) (5)
- Effects of Questions, Personalized Communication Style, and Pauses for Reflection in Children's Educational Programs (1985) (5)
- Mechanisms of emotional reactivity to media entertainments (2010) (5)
- Incidental Learning From Radio Advertisements With and Without Curiosity-Arousing Questions (1994) (5)
- Pornography Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behavior (2013) (4)
- Immediate vs Delayed Retaliation in Male and Female Adults (1977) (4)
- Evaluating the Classroom Viewing of a Television Series: "Degrassi Junior High" (2013) (3)
- Effects of Differences in Numeric Ability on the Perception of Adversity Risk to Others and Self (2013) (3)
- A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Pornography (2013) (3)
- Media Influences and Personality Development: The Inner Image and the Outer World (2013) (3)
- Confronting Children's Fright Responses to Mass Media (2013) (3)
- Cognitive and Affective Adaptation to Advancing Communication Technology (1994) (2)
- Effects of Pornography: The Debate Continues (1987) (2)
- Evolving Cognitive Models in Mass Communication Reception Processes (2013) (1)
- Predicting retention of the contents of film drama based upon a fictional or historical context (1992) (1)
- The Influence of Hormonal Fluctuations on Womens' Selection and Enjoyment of Television Programs. (1984) (1)
- Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Pornography and Public Health: Background Papers: 'Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography' (1986) (1)
- Family Images and Family Actions as Presented in the Media (2013) (1)
- Televison and Aggression: Recent Developments in Research and Theory (2013) (0)
- Pornography Research, Social Advocacy, and Public Policy (2019) (0)
- Connections Everywhere (2021) (0)
- Violence, Mayhem, and Horror (2000) (0)
- The Excitation-Transfer Connection (2021) (0)
- Perception of Interviewees with Less-Than-Perfect English: Implications for Newspaper Citations (1995) (0)
- Exemplification in Practice (2012) (0)
- Content Trends in Media Sex (2013) (0)
- Connections in Motivation and Emotion (2021) (0)
- Connections in Neurophysiology (2021) (0)
- Emotional Arousal as a Factor in Communication-Mediated Aggressive Behavior (1969) (0)
- Connections in Endocrinology (2021) (0)
- Perceiving and Responding to Mass Media Characters (2013) (0)
- Implications of Excitation Transfer (2021) (0)
- Exemplification Effects of the News (2012) (0)
- Connections in Comparative Behavior Analysis (2021) (0)
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