Stephanie Lee Sargent

TL;DR: Different patterns of Internet use and usage motives for those of different personality types are demonstrated, with those scoring high in psychoticism demonstrating an interest in more deviant, defiant, and sophisticated Internet applications.

TL;DR: The influence of photographs in news-magazine reports was investigated in two related studies as discussed by the authors, where one report addressed the economics of farming and focused on the growing gap between poor and rich farmers, and the other report examined safety at amusement parks.

TL;DR: In this article, three studies were conducted to examine possible explanations for sex differences in enjoyment of sad films, and the first two studies examined enjoyment of prototypical "female" and "male" sad films (Beaches and Brian's Song).

TL;DR: This article found that male and female spectators enjoy distinctly different types of sports and found that men were more interested in watching combative competition that emphasized combative coordination, whereas women preferred to see competition that avoided overt aggressiveness and highlighted the stylish movement of individual bodies in terms of beauty.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of sex and gender role self-perceptions on viewers' responses to neutral, melodramatic, and violent film segments, and found that the importance of gender identity on affective responses to media entertainment was emphasized.