Understanding Media Psychology

Gayle S. Stever is Professor of Psychology at Empire State University of New York, USA. She works in the areas of developmental psychology, media psychology, and fan studies. Her writing has centered around celebrity–audience relationships, the nature of attachment both within and outside of a media context, evolutionary psychology as it relates to media, and mixed-methods research.

David C. Giles is Reader in Media Psychology at the University of Winchester, UK. He explores the impact of media on human behavior with a particular interest in celebrity–audience relationships, the dynamics of online interaction, qualitative research methods, and psychological issues around artistic and cultural activities.

J. David Cohen is a faculty member at Empire State University of New York, USA. His research focuses on rewatching media, parasocial experiences, and how media affects human development. Other specific topics of interest for J. David Cohen are narrative psychology, advertising, new media, and social psychology.

Mary E. Myers is an assistant professor in the School of Communication & the Arts at Regent University, VA, USA. She built and currently leads the Doctor of Strategic Communication doctoral program – the nation’s first technical doctorate in strategic communication. Her work also explores parasocial and place attachment, artificial intelligence, and crisis communication.