Tilo Hartmann

TL;DR: A Brief Introduction to Media Choice, Tilo Hartmann, and Social Cognitive Theories of Media Selection, Robert LaRose.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether the media dramatized H1N1 on a global scale through systematically reviewing prior content-analytic studies and developed a coding scheme specifying three indicators of dramatised media coverage that inform about how mass media coverage may amplify risk perceptions in the public: the volume of media coverage, the media content presented, and the tone of coverage.

TL;DR: The authors argue for the importance of recognizing a unique form of media experience that causes us to look beyond our own concerns, to recognize moral beauty, and to feel unity with humanity and nature.

TL;DR: If Spatial Presence is a subjective mental phenomenon psychological factors must have an important role on it, and personality-related factors as absorption, and the capability to be immersed show to have an influence on the sense of Presence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address ego depletion as a mechanism influencing media-based stress recovery processes and find that ego depletion may increase the risk of negatively appraising the use of interactive (video games) and non-interactive (television) entertaining media as a form of procrastination.