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Kristen Harrison is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their academic work primarily falls within the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with a notable emphasis on Gender Studies, Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, and Clinical Psychology.

The researcher's work explores several main topics, including:

  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media

Kristen Harrison has authored multiple papers published in a variety of academic journals. Some recent publications are:

  • "Visual and cognitive processing of thin-ideal Instagram images containing idealized or disclaimer comments," 2020, Body Image
  • "Daily television exposure, parent conversation during shared television viewing and socioeconomic status: Associations with curiosity at kindergarten," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Emerging Adults and Gender Norms: Everyday Life Experiences, Media Perceptions, Attitudes, and Future Expectations," 2021, Gender Issues
  • "Media sensory curation and family media conflict: replication and validation of short-form measures," 2020, Media Psychology
  • "Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35," 2022, Media Psychology

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Media Psychology
  • Body Image
  • PLoS ONE
  • Gender Issues
  • Journal of Children and Media

Their collaborative work features frequent co-authors such as:

  • Amelia C. Couture Bue
  • Halie Wenhold
  • Prachi Shah
  • Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Todd B. Kashdan

Best Publications

  • The relationship between media consumption and eating disorders

    Kristen Harrison;Joanne Cantor

  • The body electric: thin‐ideal media and eating disorders in adolescents

    Kristen Harrison

  • Nutritional content of foods advertised during the television programs children watch most.

    Kristen Harrison;Amy L. Marske

  • Television Viewers' Ideal Body Proportions: The Case of the Curvaceously Thin Woman

    Kristen Harrison

  • Women's sports media, self-objectification, and mental health in black and white adolescent females

    Kristen Harrison;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Toward a Developmental Conceptualization of Contributors to Overweight and Obesity in Childhood: The Six‐Cs Model

    Kristen Harrison;Kelly K. Bost;Brent A. McBride;Sharon M. Donovan

  • Television Viewing, Fat Stereotyping, Body Shape Standards, and Eating Disorder Symptomatology in Grade School Children

    Kristen Harrison

  • OURSELVES, OUR BODIES: THIN-IDEAL MEDIA, SELF-DISCREPANCIES, AND EATING DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY IN ADOLESCENTS

    Kristen Harrison

  • Media Exposure, Current and Future Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Preadolescent Girls: A Longitudinal Panel Study

    Kristen Harrison;Veronica Hefner

  • Tales from the Screen: Enduring Fright Reactions to Scary Media

    Kristen Harrison;Joanne Cantor

  • The Gender-Role Content of Children's Favorite Television Programs and Its Links to Their Gender-Related Perceptions

    Jennifer Stevens Aubrey;Kristen Harrison

  • Media's Role in the Perpetuation and Prevention of Negative Body Image and Disordered Eating.

    Michael P. Levine;Kristen Harrison

  • Does interpersonal attraction to thin media personalities promote eating disorders

    Kristen Harrison

  • The Problem of “Us” Versus “Them” and AIDS Stigma:

    Patricia G. Devine;E. Ashby Plant;Kristen Harrison

  • Variety Versus Timing Gender Differences in College Students' Sexual Expectations as Predicted by Exposure to Sexually Oriented Television

    Jennifer Stevens Aubrey;Kristen Harrison;Leila Kramer;Jennifer Yellin

  • Throwing Like a Girl: Self-Objectification Predicts Adolescent Girls’ Motor Performance

    Barbara L. Fredrickson;Kristen Harrison

  • A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games

    Nicole Martins;Dmitri C. Williams;Kristen Harrison;Rabindra A. Ratan

  • Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure: A parent report measure of screen media “addiction” in children.

    Sarah E. Domoff;Kristen Harrison;Ashley N. Gearhardt;Douglas A. Gentile

  • Racial and Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Children’s Television Use and Self-Esteem A Longitudinal Panel Study

    Nicole Martins;Kristen Harrison

  • Communication in the Community of Sport: The Process of Enacting, (Re)Producing, Consuming, and Organizing Sport

    Jeffrey W. Kassing;Andrew C. Billings;Robert S. Brown;Kelby K. Halone

  • Women’s and Men’s Eating Behavior Following Exposure to Ideal-Body Images and Text

    Kristen Harrison;Laramie D. Taylor;Amy Lee Marske

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison L. Miller
Alison L. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Julie C. Lumeng
Julie C. Lumeng University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kelly K. Bost
Kelly K. Bost University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brent A. McBride
Brent A. McBride University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara H. Fiese
Barbara H. Fiese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas A. Gentile
Douglas A. Gentile Iowa State University
Ashley N. Gearhardt
Ashley N. Gearhardt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joanne Cantor
Joanne Cantor University of Wisconsin–Madison
E. Ashby Plant
E. Ashby Plant Florida State University

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