Publications

Textbooks:

Stever G. S., Giles, D. C., Cohen, J. D., Myers, M. E. (2025) Understanding media psychology (2nd ed.). Routledge.

Stever G. S., Giles, D. C., Cohen, J. D., Myers, M. E. (2022) Understanding media psychology (1st ed.). Routledge.

Journal Articles:

Reed, P. A., Shackleford, K. E., & Cohen, J. D. (2025). Credit for creativity: Engagement with artificial intelligence-generated stories and perceptions of artificial intelligence’s creative capacity. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 6(4), 310–324. https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000179

Reed, P. A., Shackleford, K. E., Cohen, J. D., & Robbins, M. J. (2024). Qualitative and quantitative investigations of Office fans’ connections with fictional and celebrity couples: Identification, parasocial relationships, and beyond. Psychology of Popular Media, 13(4), 729–740. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000552

Shackleford, K. E., Whiteman, A., Cohen, J. D., Buttafuoco, J. L. & Reed, P. A. (2026). Choosing to re-experience movies and TV episodes: Popularity, motivations, and benefits of volitional reconsumption of entertainment media. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 20(1), e700119.

Book Chapters:

Cohen, J. D., Crowley, R., Reed, P. A., & Shackleford, K. (2026). Repeat watching TV shows and movies. In J. P. Isbouts (Ed.), Media psychology today: How media and human psychology continuously shape one another in an increasingly digital world (pp. 9-47). Fielding University Press.

Green, M. C., Dill-Shackleford, K., Cohen, J. D. (2025). A social psychological framework for research on character identification and parasocial experiences. In K. E. Dill-Shackford & N. D. Bowman (Eds.), Oxford handbook of media psychology (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Stever, G. & Cohen, J. D. (2024). Ways that audience members respond to media: A framework for studying audience effects. In G. Rich, K. Kumar, F. Farley (Eds.), Handbook of media psychology: The science and the practice (pp. 89-99). Springer Nature.