The limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing: taking stock of the past

Fisher, James F.; Keene, Justin Robert; Huskey, Richard; Weber, René

doi:10.1080/23808985.2018.1534552

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“…Increased resource demand from media and incoming information will therefore result in worse task performance. This model has been supported for many years across the literature (reviewed in Fisher, Keene, Huskey, & Weber, 2018). Thus, INs can interfere with task performance needed to engage in daily activities.…”

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confidence: 88%

Disrupted Daily Activities From Interruptive Smartphone Notifications: Relations With Depression and Anxiety Severity and the Mediating Role of Boredom Proneness

Elhai

Rozgonjuk

Alghraibeh

et al. 2019

Social Science Computer Review

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Public discourse about overuse as an undesired side effect of digital communication is growing. This article conceptually develops and empirically analyzes users' perceived digital overuse (PDO) as a widespread social phenomenon sensitive to existing inequalities. In an age of digital communication abundance and closing Internet access divides, overuse has not been systematically investigated nor are its social disparities known. In a first step, PDO is demarcated from Internet addiction, theoretically defined, and operationalized. Then, the prevalence of perceived overuse is assessed in a representative population sample of Italian Internet users (N = 2008) and predictors of digital overuse are tested. Results show that digital communication use and the level of social pressure to function digitally increase PDO. Education lowers PDO while increasing digital communication use and social digital pressure. Overuse is emerging as a new dimension of digital inequality with implications for theory and future research in digital well-being.

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Disrupted Daily Activities From Interruptive Smartphone Notifications: Relations With Depression and Anxiety Severity and the Mediating Role of Boredom Proneness

Elhai

Rozgonjuk

Alghraibeh

et al. 2019

Social Science Computer Review

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“…The entertainment experience of playing video games, like most forms of entertainment media, is rooted in emotional processes, like emotional arousal (the strength of the emotion) and emotional valence (whether the emotion is positive or negative; Bradley and Lang, 2007;Potter and Bolls, 2012), and responses (Lang, 2009;Fisher et al, 2018;Raney and Bryant, 2019). Previous research suggests that emotional processes and responses elicited by features of video games (e.g., point of view) can vary by gender as well as the nature of the observed emotional process (Lim and Reeves, 2009).…”

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“…Due to the prioritization of survival-need-related content, the influence of other factors in a video game that could affect an individual likely go unnoticed by the brain because they are not as motivationally relevant. Put another way, when you are attempting to defeat a horde of hostile robots while simultaneously escaping an 1 One of the core assumptions of the LC4MP is that the brain processes all stimuli as "real" regardless of whether they are mediated or not (Lang, 2009;Fisher et al, 2018). In other words, the brain reacts to an attacking tiger on TV the same way it reacts to a "real" attacking tiger.…”

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“…This would suggest that for sex-typed people avatars of the opposite sex should be more motivationally relevant than avatars of the same sex. In other words, for sex-typed players an avatar of the opposite sex should be more motivationally relevant, and thus lead to higher emotional arousal and valence, than one of the same sex because the opposite-sex avatar is more relevant to basic survival needs (i.e., the need for procreation/mates Lang, 2009 ; Fisher et al, 2018 ).…”

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“…Video games are complex stimuli containing a plethora of characteristics that can all affect an individual's emotional arousal and valence (audio, video, haptic feedback, etc.). According to the LC4MP, individuals are most affected by message features and content that are motivationally relevant to them (Lang, 2009 ; Fisher et al, 2018 ). There are a number of message features and content types that are universally motivationally relevant because they are tied to humans' evolutionary past (e.g., graphic depictions of violence, opposite-sex nudes, smiling babies, etc.).…”

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The Effects of Sex-Type, the Sex of the Avatar, and Salience of the Sex of the Avatar on Emotional Valence and Arousal

Prettyman

Bolls

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of avatar sex, salience of avatar sex, and player sex-type on less conscious embodied emotional arousal and valence vs. consciously perceived emotional arousal and valence elicited by a gaming experience. The experiment conducted a 2 avatar sex (female × male) × 2 salience of avatar sex (high × low) × 2 player sex-type (sex-typed × non-sex-typed) mixed model factorial design. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two gameplay conditions (high-salience male and female avatar or low-salience male and female avatar) and then played two 15-min sessions of a video game—one session playing the game as a male avatar and one session playing the game as a female avatar. The order in which participants played as either a male or female avatar was randomized. Psychophysiological indicators of arousal (skin conductance) and valence (facial electromyography) were recorded during gameplay. Self-report measures of arousal and valence were obtained immediately after each 15-min session of gameplay. Data analysis tested hypotheses concerning the effects of avatar sex, salience of avatar sex, and player sex-type separately on real-time embodied variation in arousal and valence as revealed through physiological indicators and conscious perception of arousal and valence obtained through self-report measures.

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Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing

Fisher

Weber

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology

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The limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing (LC4MP) is a model for understanding the dynamic interactions between mediated messages and the human information processing system. At the time of its original writing, the LC4MP was unique in the landscape of media psychology research in that it eschewed rote investigation of message effects and instead focused on investigating how message structure and content interact with and influence various biological systems of the brain and body. Since 2000, the LC4MP has catalyzed much progress in our understanding of the biological dimensions of message processing. This entry reviews the assumptions of the LC4MP, along with key concepts and methods used in the LC4MP literature. In addition, it discusses the core propositions of the model, highlighting ways in which they have evolved as the model has developed. Finally, it introduces a few areas in which the model is still under active development, pointing out promising areas for future research.

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The limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing: taking stock of the past

Cited by 45 publications

References 142 publications

Disrupted Daily Activities From Interruptive Smartphone Notifications: Relations With Depression and Anxiety Severity and the Mediating Role of Boredom Proneness

Disrupted Daily Activities From Interruptive Smartphone Notifications: Relations With Depression and Anxiety Severity and the Mediating Role of Boredom Proneness

The Effects of Sex-Type, the Sex of the Avatar, and Salience of the Sex of the Avatar on Emotional Valence and Arousal

Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing

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