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Glenn G. Sparks

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Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview2001 · 128 citations
Children's Fear Responses to Mass Media: Testing Some Piagetian Predictions1984 · 92 citations
Effect of forewarning on emotional responses to a horror film1984 · 64 citations
The Relationship Between Distress and Delight in Males' and Females' Reactions to Frightening Films1991 · 63 citations
EXPLICATION AND TEST OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION: A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD CONSTRUCT1983 · 58 citations

Works

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Opportunistic biases: Their origins, effects, and an integrated solution.

American Psychologist·2015·5 authors

51citations

The Appeal of Media Violence in a Full‐length Motion Picture: An Experimental Investigation

Communication Reports·2005·2 authors

23citations

Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview

·2001·1 author

128citations

The Repressive Coping Style and Fright Reactions to Mass Media

Communication Research·1999·3 authors

46citations

The relationship between exposure to televised messages about paranormal phenomena and paranormal beliefs

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media·1997·3 authors

55citations

Comments Concerning the Claim That Mass Media Research Is "Prescientific": A Response to Potter, Cooper, and Dupagne

Communication Theory·1995·1 author

21citations

A Final Reply to Potter, Cooper, and Dupagne

Communication Theory

Media Impact on Fright Reactions and Belief in UFOs

Communication Research·1995·3 authors

23citations

Friends Forever: A Longitudinal Exploration of Intimacy in Same-Sex Friends and Platonic Pairs

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships·1990·2 authors

53citations

Individual Differences in Coping with Stressful Mass Media An Activation-Arousal View

Human Communication Research·1988·2 authors

48citations

Calming children's television fears: Mr. Rogers vs. The incredible hulk

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media·1988·3 authors

36citations

Predicting emotional responses to horror films from cue‐specific affect

Communication Quarterly·1988·2 authors

29citations

Faces in the News: Gender Comparisons of Magazine Photographs

Journal of Communication·1986·2 authors

27citations

Developmental differences in fright responses to a television program depicting a character transformation

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media·1986·2 authors

52citations

Developing a scale to assess cognitive responses to frightening films

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media·1986·1 author

35citations

Children's Fear Responses to Mass Media: Testing Some Piagetian Predictions

Journal of Communication·1984·2 authors

92citations

Effect of forewarning on emotional responses to a horror film

Journal of Broadcasting·1984·3 authors

64citations