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Peter Vorderer is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany. Their research intersects multiple disciplines within the social sciences, arts and humanities, and psychology. Vorderer's primary areas of study include sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, economics and econometrics, applied psychology, and gender studies.

Their work addresses a range of topics in media and behavioral sciences. Key themes in Vorderer's research include media influence and health, the impact of technology on adolescents, cinema and media studies, digital games and media, behavioral health and interventions, media related to gender and advertising, and misinformation and its impacts.

Vorderer's publication record comprises contributions to notable academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Human Communication Research
  • Media Psychology
  • The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology

Some of Vorderer's recent papers are:

  • Permanently Online-Always Stressed Out? The Effects of Permanent Connectedness on Stress Experiences (2020, Human Communication Research)
  • Surprised-Curious-Confused, Empathetic, and Entertained? The Role of Epistemic Emotions and Empathy in Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences and Political News Processing (2023, Media Psychology)
  • Integrated Model of Media Enjoyment (2020, The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology)

Their collaborations include several frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Christoph Klimmt
  • Anna Freytag
  • Katharina Knop-Huelss
  • Adrian Meier
  • Leonard Reinecke

Best Publications

  • Enjoyment: At the Heart of Media Entertainment

    Peter Vorderer;Christoph Klimmt;Ute Ritterfeld

  • Video Game Uses and Gratifications as Predicators of Use and Game Preference.

    John L. Sherry;Bradley S. Greenberg;Kristen Lucas;Ken Lachlan

  • A Process Model of the Formation of Spatial Presence Experiences

    Werner Wirth;Thomas Hartmann;Saskia Böcking;Peter Vorderer

  • Serious games : mechanisms and effects

    Ute Ritterfeld;Michael J. Cody;Peter Vorderer

  • Explaining the enjoyment of playing video games: the role of competition

    Peter Vorderer;Tilo Hartmann;Christoph Klimmt

  • The Video Game Experience as “True” Identification: A Theory of Enjoyable Alterations of Players' Self‐Perception

    Christoph Klimmt;Dorothée Hefner;Peter Vorderer

  • Playing Video Games : Motives, Responses, and Consequences

    Peter Vorderer;Jennings Bryant

  • Media entertainment: The psychology of its appeal.

    Dolf Zillmann;Peter Vorderer

  • Psychology of entertainment

    Jennings Bryant;Peter Vorderer

  • It’s okay to shoot a character: Moral disengagement in violent video games

    Thomas Hartmann;Peter Vorderer

  • Interactive entertainment and beyond

    Peter Vorderer

  • Identification with the player character as determinant of video game enjoyment

    Dorothée Hefner;Christoph Klimmt;Peter Vorderer

  • Psychological Escapism: Predicting the Amount of Television Viewing by Need for Cognition

    Bernd Henning;Peter Vorderer

  • Appraisal of Emotions in Media Use: Toward a Process Model of Meta-Emotion and Emotion Regulation

    Anne Bartsch;Peter Vorderer;Roland Mangold;Reinhold Viehoff

  • It's all entertainment—sure. But what exactly is entertainment? Communication research, media psychology, and the explanation of entertainment experiences

    Peter Vorderer

  • Permanently online - Permanently connected

    Peter Vorderer;Nicola Krömer;Frank M. Schneider

  • The Spatial Presence Experience Scale (SPES): a short self-report measure for diverse media settings

    Tilo Hartmann;Werner Wirth;Holger Schramm;Christoph Klimmt

  • Identification With Video Game Characters as Automatic Shift of Self-Perceptions

    Christoph Klimmt;Dorothée Hefner;Peter Vorderer;Christian Roth

  • Media psychology "is not yet there": introducing theories on media entertainment to the presence debate

    Christoph Klimmt;Peter Vorderer

  • Suspense : Conceptualizations, Theoretical Analyses, and Empirical Explorations

    Peter Vorderer;Hans Jurgen Wulff;Mike Friedrichsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dolf Zillmann
Dolf Zillmann University of Alabama
Leonard Reinecke
Leonard Reinecke Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Jennings Bryant
Jennings Bryant University of Alabama
Gary Bente
Gary Bente Michigan State University
Niklas Ravaja
Niklas Ravaja University of Helsinki
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Keith Oatley
Keith Oatley University of Toronto
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary Beth Oliver
Mary Beth Oliver Pennsylvania State University
Albert Rizzo
Albert Rizzo University of Southern California

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