Michaela Forrai
University of Vienna
9 Papers
Michaela Forrai is an academic researcher from University of Vienna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Salience (neuroscience). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications.
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Food as an eye-catcher. An eye-tracking study on Children's attention to healthy and unhealthy food presentations as well as non-edible objects in audiovisual media.
TL;DR: Food presentations within media content are often made responsible for todays' obesity epidemic, based on the assumption that food presentations create cue reactivity, which in turn affects the amount of food intake.
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News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
TL;DR: In this article , a multi-study project was conducted to investigate the news-framing effect's underlying mechanism by studying the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects, and they found that self-selection of news content by viewers was a necessary precondition for frame-consistent (reinforcement) effects.
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Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether news media can improve diverse political listening in the United States via a reduction in party cue salience, finding that participants showed a strong preference for listening to speeches given by Republican politicians when party cues were highly salient, while this bias in selective political listening was reduced or even absent when news items provided no or only low-salience cues.
Uncovering Blind Spots in the Intention to Provide Adequate Help to Suicidal Individuals
TL;DR: Although people seem to adapt their helping intentions in response to some attributes, there seem to be many blind spots.
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Effects of Food Depictions in Entertainment Media on Children's Unhealthy Food Preferences: Content Analysis Linked With Panel Data.
Jörg Matthes,Alice Binder,Brigitte Naderer,Michaela Forrai,Ines Spielvogel,Helena Knupfer,Melanie Saumer +6 more
TL;DR: The presentation of unhealthy foods in children's entertainment media is not significantly related to unhealthy or healthy food consumption behaviors. However, the effects of unhealthy food presentation rise with increasing levels of centrality.