Karin M. Fikkers

University of Applied Sciences Utrecht — Netherlands

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

11h-index466citations24works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Child Development and Digital Technology(13), Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression(11), Media Influence and Health(8), Impact of Technology on Adolescents(7), Media, Gender, and Advertising(4)

Publications24 total

Perceived negativity of news, news distrust, and news overload as predictors of intentional news avoidance in preadolescents and their parents
Communications·2025Open Access
The Implicit Guides to Convincingness Intuitions: How Emotional Valence, Emotional Arousal, and Processing Fluency Relate to Perceived and Actual Convincingness
Open MIND·2024Open Access
Changing Your Future?
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness
Communication Theory·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
The mediating role of sympathy in the relationship between media violence and Dutch adolescents’ social behaviors
Journal of Children and Media·2020· 13 citedOpen Access
More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor in Media Entertainment for Tweens and Teens
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media·2020· 16 citedOpen Access
Media Violence and Aggression
2019· 3 cited
Content and person effects in media research: Studying differences in cognitive, emotional, and arousal responses to media content
Media Psychology·2019· 32 citedOpen Access
What’s in It for Them? Teens’ Differential Preferences for Types and Contexts of Televised Aggression
Communication Research·2019· 9 citedOpen Access
Child’s Play? Assessing the Bidirectional Longitudinal Relationship between Gaming and Intelligence in Early Childhood
Journal of Communication·2019· 31 citedOpen Access
A matter of style? Exploring the effects of parental mediation styles on early adolescents’ media violence exposure and aggression
Computers in Human Behavior·2017· 94 citedOpen Access
Etmaal 2017 Preconference on Physiological Measurement
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2016
Beyond the lab: Investigating early adolescents' cognitive, emotional, and arousal responses to violent games
Computers in Human Behavior·2016· 17 citedOpen Access
A different(ial) perspective: How social context influences the media violence-aggression relationship among early adolescents
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)·2016· 2 citedOpen Access
The Role of Perceived Peer Norms in the Relationship Between Media Violence Exposure and Adolescents' Aggression
Media Psychology·2015· 29 citedOpen Access
The Role of Perceived Peer Norms in the Relationship Between Media Violence Exposure and Aggression
2015
Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Television and Game Violence Exposure Measures
Communication Research·2015· 42 citedOpen Access
Issue-relevant thinking and identification as mechanisms of narrative persuasion
Poetics·2014· 99 cited
Double Dose: High Family Conflict Enhances the Effect of Media Violence Exposure on Adolescents’ Aggression
Societies·2013· 51 citedOpen Access
How family conflict moderates the relationship between media violence and adolescents' aggression
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)·2013
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Frequent Co-authors

Jessica Taylor Piotrowski(11), Patti M. Valkenburg(11), Helen G. M. Vossen(4), Hans Hoeken(3), Wouter D. Weeda(2), Peter Lugtig(2), D.L. Theijssen(2), Hans van Halteren(2), Frederike Groothoff(2), Lian van Berkel-van Hoof(2), E. van de Sande(2), Jorieke Tiems(2), Véronique Verhagen(2), Amber van der Wal(2), Patrick van der Zande(1), Anita Eerland(1), Bregje Holleman(1), Jos J. A. Van Berkum(1), Henk Pander Maat(1), Renske van Enschot(1)