Mary Beth Oliver

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Mary Beth Oliver is affiliated with the following schools: University of Nottingham, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Pennsylvania State University, University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Tech

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According to Wikipedia, Mary Beth Oliver is a Distinguished Professor of Media Studies at the Penn State College of Communications, where she is also the co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory. Education and career Oliver received her B.A. from Virginia Tech in communication studies in 1986. She then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in 1988 and 1991, respectively. Both of her graduate degrees were in communication arts.

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Mary Beth Oliver's Published Works

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Gender differences in sexuality: a meta-analysis. (1993) (1165)
Entertainment as Pleasurable and Meaningful: Identifying Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations for Entertainment Consumption (2011) (476)
Appreciation as Audience Response: Exploring Entertainment Gratifications beyond Hedonism. (2010) (461)
The Sage handbook of media processes and effects (2009) (362)
Exploring the Paradox of the Enjoyment of Sad Films (1993) (321)
Portrayals of crime, race, and aggression in “reality‐based” police shows: A content analysis (1994) (259)
The Effect of Narrative News Format on Empathy for Stigmatized Groups (2012) (209)
Tender Affective States as Predictors of Entertainment Preference (2008) (206)
The 2008 Presidential Election, 2.0: A Content Analysis of User-Generated Political Facebook Groups (2010) (178)
Elevation in Response to Entertainment Portrayals of Moral Virtue (2012) (173)
Video Games as Meaningful Entertainment Experiences (2016) (170)
Appreciation of Entertainment (2011) (157)
African American men as “criminal and dangerous”: Implications of media portrayals of crime on the “criminalization” of African American men (2003) (153)
Race and Crime in the News: Whites' Identification and Misidentification of Violent and Nonviolent Criminal Suspects (2002) (139)
When Good Characters Do Bad Things: Examining the Effect of Moral Ambiguity on Enjoyment (2012) (126)
Self-transcendent Media Experiences: Taking Meaningful Media to a Higher Level (2018) (119)
An Examination of Factors Related to Sex Differences In Enjoyment of Sad Films (2000) (110)
Exploring the role of meaningful experiences in users’ appreciation of “good movies” (2010) (105)
Activating and Suppressing Hostile and Benevolent Racism: Evidence for Comparative Media Stereotyping (2007) (101)
Perceived benefits and costs of romantic relationships for women and men: Implications for exchange theory (1994) (98)
Effects of sexual permissiveness on desirability of partner as a function of low and high commitment to relationship. (1992) (94)
The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being : International Perspectives on Theory and Research on Positive Media Effects (2016) (93)
Caucasian viewers' memory of black and white criminal suspects in the news (1999) (93)
Predictors of Viewing and Enjoyment of Reality-Based and Fictional Crime Shows (1995) (91)
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004) (85)
A PPRECIATION OF E NTERTAINMENT Appreciation of Entertainment : The Importance of Meaningfulness via Virtue and Wisdom (2014) (74)
Laughing and Crying: Mixed Emotions, Compassion, and the Effectiveness of a YouTube PSA About Skin Cancer (2015) (69)
Media-Induced Elevation as a Means of Enhancing Feelings of Intergroup Connectedness (2015) (67)
Learning and engagement through natural history museums (2018) (58)
Fun Versus Meaningful Video Game Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of User Responses (2017) (58)
The Impact of Sex and Gender Role Self-Perception on Affective Reactions to Different Types of Film (1998) (58)
Portrayals of Sexual Violence in Popular Hindi Films, 1997–99 (2003) (57)
Moved to Think (2014) (57)
Age Differences in Adults' Emotional Motivations for Exposure to Films (2008) (55)
The Relationship Between Elevation, Connectedness, and Compassionate Love in Meaningful Films (2017) (55)
YouTube for Good: A Content Analysis and Examination of Elicitors of Self‐Transcendent Media (2017) (54)
Inspired by the Paralympics: Effects of Empathy on Audience Interest in Para-Sports and on the Destigmatization of Persons With Disabilities (2018) (53)
Gender differences in sexuality: Results from meta-analysis. (2000) (52)
In control or in their shoes? How character attachment differentially influences video game enjoyment and appreciation (2016) (51)
Using Elections as Teachable Moments: A Randomized Evaluation of the Student Voices Civic Education Program (2009) (46)
Development of Gender Differences in Children's Responses to Animated Entertainment (2001) (44)
Exploring the Effects of Television Viewing on Perceived Life Quality: A Combined Perspective of Material Value and Upward Social Comparison (2010) (42)
Exploring the Effects of Online Advertising on Readers' Perceptions of Online News (2004) (41)
Perceptions of Moral Violations and Personality Traits Among Heroes and Villains (2015) (36)
Making Sense of Entertainment (2011) (35)
Cultivation Effects on Quality of Life Indicators: Exploring the Effects of American Television Consumption on Feelings of Relative Deprivation in South Korea and India (2008) (34)
Appropriate for All Viewing Audiences? An Examination of Violent and Sexual Portrayals in Movie Previews Featured on Video Rentals (2002) (34)
The Uses and Gratifications of Media Migration: Investigating the Activities, Motivations, and Predictors of Migration Behaviors Originating in Entertainment Television (2015) (34)
Exploring the Concept of Media Enjoyment: An Introduction to the Special Issue (2004) (32)
It's not the model that doesn't fit, it's the controller! The role of cognitive skills in understanding the links between natural mapping, performance, and enjoyment of console video games (2015) (32)
Profiling the Audience for Self-Transcendent Media: A National Survey (2018) (31)
Poignancy and Mediated Wisdom of Experience: Narrative Impacts on Willingness to Accept Delayed Rewards (2019) (31)
Contributions of sexual portrayals to viewers’ responses to graphic horror (1994) (31)
Broadcasting one world: How watching online videos can elicit elevation and reduce stereotypes (2017) (28)
Elevation (sometimes) increases altruism: Choice and number of outcomes in elevating media effects. (2014) (28)
Media Effects (2019) (26)
Adolescents' Enjoyment of Graphic Horror (1993) (25)
Sexual and Violent Imagery in Movie Previews: Effects on Viewers' Perceptions and Anticipated Enjoyment (2007) (24)
Feeling transcendent? Measuring psychophysiological responses to self-transcendent media content (2019) (23)
A Penchant for the Immoral: Implications of Parasocial Interaction, Perceived Complicity, and Identification on Liking of Anti-Heroes (2019) (23)
Gender differences in attitudes toward homosexuality: A reply to Whitley and Kite. (1995) (22)
The Appeal of Horror and Suspense (2004) (21)
Spreading the Good News: Analyzing Socially Shared Inspirational News Content (2018) (21)
Appreciation of meaningful entertainment experiences and eudaimonic well-being (2016) (21)
Influences of authoritarianism and portrayals of race on Caucasian viewers’ responses to reality‐based crime dramas (1996) (20)
Repelled by virtue? The dark triad and eudaimonic narratives (2018) (19)
Self-transcendent emotions and social media: Exploring the content and consumers of inspirational Facebook posts (2020) (18)
Health Communication| Moved to Act: Examining the Role of Mixed Affect and Cognitive Elaboration in “Accidental” Narrative Persuasion (2017) (18)
Entertainment We Watch and Entertainment We Appreciate: Patterns of Motion Picture Consumption and Acclaim Over Three Decades (2014) (17)
Development of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Measures of Entertainment Motivations: The Role of Affective and Cognitive Gratifications (2008) (15)
What Combination of Message Characteristics Determines Hedonic and Counter-Hedonic Preferences? An Examination of the Interplay Between Valence and Semantic Affinity (2011) (14)
Affect as a Predictor of Entertainment Choice: The Utility of Looking Beyond Pleasure (2009) (14)
Eudaimonia as Media Effect (2019) (13)
How Can Wii Learn From Video Games?: Examining Relationships between Technological Affordances and Socio-Cognitive Determinates on Affective and Behavioral Outcomes (2016) (13)
The therapeutic effects of narrative cinema through clarification: Reexamining catharsis (2013) (13)
Communication Theory and Research in the Age of New Media: A Conversation from the CM Café (2012) (13)
Mediated wisdom of experience revisited: Delay discounting, acceptance of death, and closeness to future self (2018) (13)
An Introduction to the Special Issue: Expanding the Boundaries of Entertainment Research (2014) (12)
Exploring Implications of Perceived Media Reinforcement on Third-Person Perceptions (2008) (12)
The Role of Mixed Affect in the Experience of Meaningful Entertainment (2009) (11)
The Experience of Elevation: Responses to Media Portrayals of Moral Beauty (2012) (10)
The Differential Effects of Direct Address on Parasocial Experience and Identification: Empirical Evidence for Conceptual Difference (2018) (10)
Negative emotions and the meaningful sides of media entertainment (2014) (10)
Mass media effects (2010) (9)
Exploring the Spirit in U.S. Audiences: The Role of the Virtue of Transcendence in Inspiring Media Consumption (2019) (9)
I feel what they say: the effect of social media comments on viewers’ affective reactions toward elevating online videos (2019) (9)
The melody to inspiration: The effects of awe-eliciting music on approach motivation and positive well-being (2019) (9)
Media and Social Groups (2014) (8)
Exploring Dimensions of Movie Enjoyment and Appreciation (2008) (8)
Do We Improve, Disrupt, or Embrace Sadness? Exploring Sadness-Based Media Choice and Its Anticipated Effects on Coping (2007) (7)
Media Effects Advances in Theory and Research (2020) (7)
Aesthetic engagement during moments of suffering (2013) (7)
Judging a movie by its cover: A content analysis of sexual portrayals on video rental jackets (2003) (7)
Introduction to Positive Media Psychology (2020) (7)
The Color of Crime: Perceptions of Caucasians' and African-Americans' Involvement in Crime (2018) (6)
How Do We Regulate Sadness Through Entertainment Messages? Exploring Three Predictions (2013) (6)
Meaningful entertainment experiences and self-transcendence: Cultural variations shape elevation, values, and moral intentions (2018) (6)
Inspiration on social media: Applying an entertainment perspective to longitudinally explore mental health and well-being (2022) (6)
Social media use and eudaimonic well-being. (2022) (6)
Using Sex to Sell Movies: A Content Analysis of Movie Trailers (2013) (6)
Race and Crime in the Media: Research from a Media Effects Perspective (2007) (6)
Factorial Validity and Measurement Invariance of the Appreciation, Fun, and Suspense Scales Across US-American and German Samples (2019) (6)
Kindness Media Rapidly Inspires Viewers and Increases Happiness, Calm, Gratitude, and Generosity in a Healthcare Setting (2021) (5)
He does not look like video games made him do it: Racial stereotypes and school shootings. (2020) (5)
Is Watching Others Self-Disclose Enjoyable? An Examination of the Effects of Information Delivery in Entertainment Media (2014) (5)
Awe and Stereotypes: Examining Awe as an Intervention against Stereotypical Media Portrayals of African Americans (2020) (5)
Elevating Entertainment and the “Kind-World” Syndrome (2012) (4)
Using the “New Directions” to Move Media Viewers in the Right Directions (2015) (4)
Perceptions of Moral Violations among Media Characters (2009) (4)
Is Watching Others Self-Disclose Enjoyable? (2014) (4)
It’s my choice: The effects of moral decision-making on narrative game engagement (2019) (3)
Expanding the Boundaries of Entertainment Research: An Epilogue (2014) (3)
Aesthetic engagement during moments of suffering: A special issue (2013) (3)
Tragic and poignant entertainment (2010) (3)
Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationships (2016) (3)
Chapter 12. Absorption and meaningfulness: Examining the relationship between eudaimonic media use and engagement (2017) (3)
Moving political opponents closer: How kama muta can contribute to reducing the partisan divide in the US (2022) (3)
Meaningful Responses to Narrative Digital Media: Research from a Media Psychology Perspective (2021) (2)
Inspired to mask up: The effect of uplifting media messages on attitudes about wearing face masks among Democrats and Republicans. (2021) (2)
EFFECTS OF VISUAL IMAGES IN HEALTH MESSAGE FRAMING (2008) (2)
Reflective thoughts about violent media content – development of a bilingual self-report scale in English and German (2020) (2)
The Interplay Between Customization and Cognition in Web Portals: The Multiple Role Hypothesis Explanation (2010) (2)
Meaningful Films: The Relationship Between Elevation, Connectedness, Compassionate Love, and Helping Behavior (2015) (1)
A Merry Band of Thieves: Media-Induced Complicity With Antiheroes (2015) (1)
Entertainment Effects: Media Appreciation (2017) (1)
Transcending Eudaimonic Entertainment (2021) (1)
He Doesnt Look Like the Games Made Him Do It: Racial Stereotype Activation in Estimates of Violent Video Games Influence on Violent Crimes (2009) (1)
Exploring media selections and avoidances as a means of mood regulation in the context of romantic relationships (2006) (1)
What Is Positive Media Psychology? (2018) (1)
Third-Person Perceptions and Different Movie Genres (2012) (1)
Comparing Entertainment and Emotions (2012) (1)
Reach Across the Aisle: Elevation From Political Messages Predicts Increased Positivity Toward Politics, Political Participation, and the Opposite Political Party (2019) (1)
Sharing Intentions Measure (2017) (0)
Sense of Elevation Measure (2018) (0)
The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of Communications A TALE OF FOUR CITIES – A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF AIR POLLUTION (2017) (0)
Meaningful Affective States Predict Favorable Evaluations of Meaningful Entertainment (2011) (0)
Student-friendly Journals and Journal-friendly Curricula (2005) (0)
“Harmonious Middle Kingdom and Dangerous Beautiful Country?” Exploring Cultivation Effects of Domestic and U.S.-Made TV Programs on Chinese College Students?” Exploring Cultivation Effects of Domestic and U.S.-Made TV Programs on Chinese College Students (2018) (0)
Exploring the impact of media use on wellbeing following a natural disaster (2022) (0)
Eudaimonic Experiences as Predictors of Audience Interest in the Paralympics and Destigmatization of Persons With Disabilities (2015) (0)
Affective Responses to the Film Measure (2015) (0)
Protecting Against Racial Stereotypes Appearing in Broadcast News (2011) (0)
Media Effects Theories 1 (2019) (0)
Using the “New Directions” to Move Media Viewers in the Right Directions: Examining the Effects of Glee Narratives on Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions towards Stigmatized Groups (2015) (0)
Broadcasting One World: How Watching Elevating Online Videos Can Strengthen Universal Orientation and Reduce Stereotypes (2015) (0)
The Beauty and Poignancy of the Present (2022) (0)
Do Sad People Like Sad Entertainment (2009) (0)
Index to Volume 116 (2010) (0)
Eudaimonic Appreciation Scale (2017) (0)
Examining the Influence of Awe-Inspiring News Stories on Elevation and Sharing (2012) (0)
Migration Motivations Measure (2016) (0)
Fun Versus Meaningful Video Game Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of User Responses (2016) (0)
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations in Movie Preferences Measure (2016) (0)
| Media and Social Life | Taylor & Francis Group (2014) (0)
Reflective Thoughts Scale (2015) (0)
Getting the Best Out of POPC While Keeping the Risks in Mind (2017) (0)

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