Handbook of Media Psychology

Grant J. Rich, (Ph.D., Psychology, University of Chicago) is the current (2024) President of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Society for Media Psychology and Technology (Division 46). Dr. Rich is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, APA, and five of APA's divisions including D46. Dr. Rich has extensive experience in managing organizations and projects. He served APA's Society of the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division (D48) successfully for three years as its APA Convention Program Chair, and, for four years, as Editor of International Psychology's (D52) substantial quarterly International Psychology Bulletin, receiving its President's Award for Extraordinary Service. Among other honors, he received the Academic Service Award from the American University of Phnom Penh and twice was a NEH Fellow. Dr. Rich has published over 110 peer-reviewed journal articles/book chapters/entries in leading journals including American Psychologist, Journal of Positive Psychology, Humanistic Psychologist, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. He is the senior editor of nine academic books, including Pathfinders in International Psychology (2015) Internationalizing the Teaching of Psychology (2017), Human Strengths and Resilience (2018), Teaching Psychology Around the World, Volume 4 (2018), and 5 (2020), Psychology in Southeast Asia (2020), Psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean (2022), and Psychosocial Experiences and Adjustment of Migrants: Coming to the USA (2023). Dr. Rich is a leader in online and global education, serving as Senior Contributing Faculty at Walden University, where he has worked since 2013. His publications include several books/articles focused on diversifying psychology education (e.g., via online education/media/MOOCs), articles on attitudes towards media celebrities, and articles/chapters on creativity, particularly concerning popular/classical musicians, including cinematic depictions. Dr. Rich serves on several editorial boards, including PLOS One and APA's Traumatology and Peace & Conflict. He has also published over 100 book reviews and made over 110 professional presentations in the USA and internationally, including APA, American Educational Research Association, American Anthropological Association, APS, International Association of Applied Psychology, and International Council of Psychology (ICP). Dr. Rich has an abiding interest in behavioral health technologies, including prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) and their precursors, such as the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) approaches. He is the recipient of the 2023 Frances Mullen Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Psychology (ICP).

V. K. Kumar, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for 45 years. Before that, he taught at Case Western Reserve University for 6 years. He also taught summer sessions as a visiting professor two times at the University of Iowa and once at the University of Alberta-Edmonton, Canada. He served as the 2014 President of the APA Society for Humanistic Psychology. He also served as the 2020 President of the APA Society for Media Psychology and Technology. He has served as Editor/Co-Editor of The Amplifier Magazine of the Society for Media Psychology and Technology from 2008-2022. He has published over 170 scholarly works, which include articles based on empirical work, review-based articles, edited books, book chapters, book and film reviews, blogs, editorials, and columns as an officer in the Society for Media Psychology and Technology in The Amplifier Magazine. He has served as a consulting editor and peer-reviewer for a variety of journals and served as a special issue editor for the Journal of Group Psychothe

Preface.-Media psychology and technology: An overview.-A brief history of media psychology (1.0).-Major theories and constructs in media psychology.- Social media and the developing brain.- Political advertising, persuasion, propaganda, and fake news.- Foundations in media psychology: Course and curriculum.- Banned books: Past, present, and future .- Ways that audience members respond to media: A framework for studying audience effects.- The impact of online pornography consumption on youth.- Gender and media.- Psychology and popular film.- Aggression and popular media: From violence in entertainment media to news coverage of violence.- How recognized addiction models and our relationships with digital media intersect.- Apps and Care: Clinical and Societal Applications of Media.- Settling the Score: Virtual Reality as a Tool to Enhance Trauma-Focused Therapy for PTSD.- Ethical issues in media psychology.- The impact of misinformation, conspiracy theories and fake news duringthe COVID-19 pandemic: What artificial intelligence can contribute to detect and mitigate their proliferation .- Complex dynamics of cancel culture in the media.- Media and psychological science.