Matthew Grizzard

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Matthew Grizzard is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Grizzard has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Matthew Grizzard's work include Media Influence and Health (39 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (15 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (15 papers). Matthew Grizzard is often cited by papers focused on Media Influence and Health (39 papers), Media, Gender, and Advertising (15 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (15 papers). Matthew Grizzard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Matthew Grizzard's co-authors include Ron Tamborini, Allison Eden, Nicholas David Bowman, Robert Lewis, Leonard Reinecke, Sujay Prabhu, René Weber, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Jialing Huang and Changhyun Ahn and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Grizzard

49 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Defining Media Enjoyment as the Satisfaction of Intrinsic Needs

2010 440 citations Ron Tamborini, Nicholas David Bowman et al. Journal of Communication profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Grizzard United States	18	773	750	399	274	222	52	1.4k
John L. Sherry United States	13	997 1.3×	406 0.5×	312 0.8×	166 0.6×	117 0.5×	20	1.6k
Anne Bartsch Germany	21	846 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	518 1.3×	531 1.9×	149 0.7×	50	1.9k
Diana Rieger Germany	22	941 1.2×	524 0.7×	439 1.1×	208 0.8×	83 0.4×	82	1.6k
Laura A. Maruskin United States	10	497 0.6×	444 0.6×	425 1.1×	148 0.5×	165 0.7×	10	1.2k
Rick W. Busselle United States	15	771 1.0×	1.4k 1.8×	265 0.7×	641 2.3×	115 0.5×	26	2.0k
Nobuko Ihori Japan	4	1.3k 1.6×	454 0.6×	927 2.3×	117 0.4×	118 0.5×	6	2.0k
Bradley M. Okdie United States	13	951 1.2×	224 0.3×	384 1.0×	88 0.3×	72 0.3×	40	1.5k
Jorge Peña United States	19	598 0.8×	319 0.4×	421 1.1×	56 0.2×	84 0.4×	51	1.3k
Silvia Knobloch United States	14	551 0.7×	478 0.6×	185 0.5×	160 0.6×	152 0.7×	23	1.1k
Rachel Kowert Germany	18	981 1.3×	171 0.2×	222 0.6×	134 0.5×	51 0.2×	40	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Grizzard

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Conceptualizing and Measuring Character Depth. Media Psychology. 29(1). 81–108.

Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2025). ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 40965–40965.

Matthews, Nicholas L., et al.. (2023). The Effects of Side-Taking on Narrative Entertainment and the Perceptions of Events and Characters. Media Psychology. 27(4). 533–557.

Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Examining genre success, co-occurrence, release, and production of 9,068 films over twenty years. Poetics. 99. 101794–101794. 1 indexed citations

Grizzard, Matthew & Allison Eden. (2022). The Character Engagement and Moral Adjustment Model (CEMAM): A Synthesis of More than Six Decades of Research. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 66(4). 698–722. 3 indexed citations

Ahn, Changhyun, Matthew Grizzard, & Seyoung Lee. (2021). How Do Video Games Elicit Guilt in Players? Linking Character Morality to Guilt Through a Mediation Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 666518–666518. 7 indexed citations

Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Validating a Set of Retribution Narratives for Use in Media Psychology Research. Communication Studies. 72(2). 214–231. 3 indexed citations

Prabhu, Sujay, Lindsay Hahn, Ron Tamborini, & Matthew Grizzard. (2020). Do Morals Featured in Media Content Correspond with Moral Intuitions in Media Users?: A Test of the MIME in Two Cultures. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 64(2). 255–276. 15 indexed citations

Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2020). The Gordian Knot of Disposition Theory. Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications. 32(2). 100–105. 15 indexed citations

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Grizzard, Matthew, Jialing Huang, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Changhyun Ahn, & Haoran Chu. (2017). Sensing Heroes and Villains: Character-Schema and the Disposition Formation Process. Communication Research. 45(4). 479–501. 41 indexed citations

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Grizzard, Matthew, et al.. (2017). Graphic Violence as Moral Motivator: The Effects of Graphically Violent Content in News. Mass Communication & Society. 20(6). 763–783. 18 indexed citations

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Lewis, Robert, et al.. (2017). Are Enjoyment and Appreciation Both Yardsticks of Popularity?. Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications. 31(2). 55–64. 8 indexed citations

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Lewis, Robert, et al.. (2017). Large-Scale Patterns of Entertainment Gratifications in Linguistic Content of U.S. Films. Communication Studies. 68(4). 422–438. 2 indexed citations

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Lewis, Robert, et al.. (2016). Moral Clarity in Narratives Elicits Greater Cooperation than Moral Ambiguity. Media Psychology. 20(4). 533–556. 5 indexed citations

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Eden, Allison, Ron Tamborini, Matthew Grizzard, et al.. (2014). Repeated Exposure to Narrative Entertainment and the Salience of Moral Intuitions. Journal of Communication. 64(3). 501–520. 45 indexed citations

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Tamborini, Ron, Sujay Prabhu, Lu Wang, & Matthew Grizzard. (2013). Setting the Moral Agenda: News Exposure’s Influence on the Salience of Moral Intuitions. 3 indexed citations

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Tamborini, Ron, et al.. (2011). A Content Analysis of Moral Foundations Presented in Spanish and English Language Soap Operas. 4 indexed citations

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Lewis, Robert, Matthew Grizzard, Nicholas David Bowman, Allison Eden, & Ron Tamborini. (2011). Intuitive Morality and Reactions to News Events: Responding to News of the Lockerbie Bomber’s Release. 5 indexed citations

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Tamborini, Ron, et al.. (2010). Defining Media Enjoyment as the Satisfaction of Intrinsic Needs. Journal of Communication. 60(4). 758–777. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tamborini, Ron, et al.. (2010). Characterizing Behavioral Affinity as Needs Satisfaction: Predicting Selective Exposure to Video Games and Resultant Mood Repair. 2 indexed citations

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