Publications
2023
Scholarly publications
van Enschot, R., Fikkers, K., Prins, J., & Roth, C. (2023). Changing Your Future? An Experimental Study on the Persuasive Effects of an Interactive Climate Change Documentary. In GoodIT 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (pp. 149-155). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3582515.3609529
Professional publications
Eerland, A., & Fikkers, K. (2023). Last Contact (online escape room about Open Science). Digital or Visual Products
van Enschot, R., & Fikkers, K. (2023). Interactieve verhalen (Het Weten-schap). Tekstblad, 4, 23.
2022
Scholarly publications
Hoeken, H., Fikkers, K., Eerland, A., Holleman, B., van Berkum, J., & Pander Maat, H. (2022). The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness. Communication Theory, 32(4), 488-496. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtac019
2021
Scholarly publications
Vossen, H. G. M., & Fikkers, K. M. (2021). The mediating role of sympathy in the relationship between media violence and Dutch adolescents' social behaviors. Journal of Children and Media, 15(3), 389-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2020.1828118
2020
Scholarly publications
van der Wal, A., Piotrowski, J. T., Fikkers, K. M., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2020). More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor in Media Entertainment for Tweens and Teens. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 64(3), 478-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2020.1796389
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/409602/More_than_Just_a_Laughing_Matter_A_Coding_Framework_of_Humor_in_Media_Entertainment_for_Tweens_and_Teens.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/409602/More_than_Just_a_Laughing_Matter_A_Coding_Framework_of_Humor_in_Media_Entertainment_for_Tweens_and_Teens.pdf?sequence=1
van der Wal, A., Fikkers, K. M., & Valkenburg, P. (2020). What’s in It for Them? Teens’ Differential Preferences for Types and Contexts of Televised Aggression. Communication Research, 47(8), 1206–1227. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650219832231
2019
Scholarly publications
Piotrowski, J. T., & Fikkers, K. M. (2019). Media Violence and Aggression. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research (Fourth edition ed., pp. 211-226). Routledge.
Fikkers, K. M., & Piotrowski, J. T. (2019). Content and person effects in media research: Studying differences in cognitive, emotional, and arousal responses to media content. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1608257
Fikkers, K. M., Piotrowski, J. T., & Valkenburg, P. (2019). Child’s Play? Assessing the Bidirectional Longitudinal Relationship between Gaming and Intelligence in Early Childhood. Journal of Communication, 69, 124-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqz003
2017
Scholarly publications
Fikkers, K. M., Piotrowski, J. T., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2017). A matter of style? Exploring the effects of parental mediation styles on early adolescents’ media violence exposure and aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 407-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.029
Fikkers, K. M., Taylor Piotrowski, J., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2017). Assessing the reliability and validity of television and game violence exposure measures. Communication Research, 44(1), 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215573863
2016
Scholarly publications
Fikkers, K. M., Piotrowski, J. T., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2016). Beyond the lab: Investigating early adolescents' cognitive, emotional, and arousal responses to violent games. Computers in Human Behavior, 60, 542-549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.055
Fikkers, K. M., Piotrowski, J. T., Lugtig, P., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2016). The Role of Perceived Peer Norms in the Relationship Between Media Violence Exposure and Adolescents' Aggression. Media Psychology, 19(1), 4-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2015.1037960
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/338495/role.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/338495/role.pdf?sequence=1
2014
Scholarly publications
Hoeken, H., & Fikkers, K. M. (2014). Issue-relevant thinking and identification as mechanisms of narrative persuasion. Poetics, 44, 84-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2014.05.001
2013
Scholarly publications
Fikkers, K. M., Piotrowski, J. T., Weeda, W. D., Vossen, H. G. M., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2013). Double dose: High family conflict enhances the effect of media violence exposure on adolescents’ aggression. Societies, 3(3), 280-292. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc3030280
Fikkers, K. M., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2013). Reasons for consuming violent entertainment. In Encyclopedia of media violence (pp. 318-320). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452299655