Mobile phones, television, internet services, games, and social media offer diverse and
numerous opportunities for coping with stress in everyday life. Different disciplines have …

Introduction: Emotion regulation (ER) supports multiple individual functions and promotes
mental health and wellbeing. Among the tools that may be used to help people in managing …

In spring 2020, COVID-19 and the ensuing social distancing and stay-at-home orders
instigated abrupt changes to employment and educational infrastructure, leading to …

Based on self-determination theory, the current laboratory experiment investigates how the
use of virtual reality (VR) technology shapes the gaming experience. We hypothesize that …

The idea that game design can inspire the design of motivating, enjoyable interactive
systems has a long history in human-computer interaction. It currently experiences a …

Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media
channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we …

Games are important vehicles for learning and behavior change as long as players are
motivated to continue playing. We study the impact of verbal feedback in stimulating player …

Day-to-day life is inundated with attempts to control emotions and a wealth of research has
examined what strategies people use and how effective these strategies are. However, until …

The need-density hypothesis proposes that pathological gaming is most likely to occur when
satisfaction of three basic human needs (competence, autonomy, relatedness) is low in the …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …