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Matthew Grizzard

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2008
Media Influence and HealthSocial and Intergroup PsychologyPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentMedia, Gender, and AdvertisingImpact of Technology on Adolescents

Publications

87

Citations

2,113

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2008

Research summary
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Matthew Grizzard studies media psychology, focusing on how people morally and emotionally respond to media characters and stories—such as feeling sympathy, guilt, or schadenfreude toward characters in TV, film, video games, and social media. His work often develops and tests theoretical models (like disposition theory and moral disengagement) explaining why audiences root for or against media characters, and he also writes about research methods used in this field.

Media psychologyMoral judgment and emotionCharacter perception in mediaAudience response to narrativesResearch methodology in communication science

Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, fluctuating between roughly 3 and 8 papers per year without a clear long-term increase or decline.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.6/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 5 publications212022: 6 publications222023: 8 publications8232024: 4 publications242025: 5 publications252026: 5 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Media Psychology×11
  • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications×4
  • Journal of Communication×3
  • Communication Studies×3
  • Open MIND×3
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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