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Ron Tamborini publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ron Tamborini sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 117 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Ron Tamborini D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ron Tamborini sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ron Tamborini is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including social sciences, psychology, and arts and humanities. The subfields of their work include sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and communication.

Their research topics primarily cover media influence and health, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, cultural differences and values, misinformation and its impacts, communication in education and healthcare, and social media and politics.

Ron Tamborini has contributed publications to several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • Journal of Communication
  • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
  • Communication Studies
  • Communication Reports

They have collaborated regularly with multiple scholars, including Lindsay Hahn, Melinda Aley, Joshua Baldwin, Sara M. Grady, and Sujay Prabhu.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Stories Collectively Engage Listeners' Brains: Enhanced Intersubject Correlations during Reception of Personal Narratives" (2021) published in Journal of Communication
  • "The social factors and functions of media use" (2022) published in Journal of Communication
  • "Do Morals Featured in Media Content Correspond with Moral Intuitions in Media Users?: A Test of the MIME in Two Cultures" (2020) published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
  • "The Representation of Altruism and Egoism in Children's Books" (2020) published in Communication Studies
  • "What Does Television Teach Children? Examining the Altruistic and Egoistic Lessons in Children's Educational Television" (2021) published in Communication Reports

Best Publications

  • Defining Media Enjoyment as the Satisfaction of Intrinsic Needs

    Ron Tamborini;Nicholas David Bowman;Allison Eden;Matthew Grizzard

  • The Role of Presence in the Experience of Electronic Games

    Ron Tamborini;Paul Skalski

  • Mapping the road to fun: Natural video game controllers, presence, and game enjoyment

    Paul Skalski;Ron Tamborini;Ashleigh K. Shelton;Michael Buncher

  • Popular video games: Quantifying the presentation of violence and its context

    Stacy L. Smith;Kenneth A. Lachlan;Ron Tamborini

  • Media Enjoyment as Need Satisfaction: The Contribution of Hedonic and Nonhedonic Needs

    Ronald Tamborini;Matthew Grizzard;Nicholas David Bowman;Leonard Reinecke

  • Theorizing Flow and Media Enjoyment as Cognitive Synchronization of Attentional and Reward Networks

    René Weber;Ron Tamborini;Amber Westcott-Baker;Benjamin Kantor

  • Third-Person Effect and Internet Pornography: The Influence of Collectivism and Internet Self-Efficacy

    Byoungkwan Lee;Ron Tamborini

  • Predictors of Horror Film Attendance and Appeal An Analysis of the Audience for Frightening Films

    Ron Tamborini;James Stiff

  • The Role of Social Presence in Interactive Agent-Based Persuasion

    Paul Skalski;Ron Tamborini

  • Characterizing Mood Management as Need Satisfaction: The Effects of Intrinsic Needs on Selective Exposure and Mood Repair

    Leonard Reinecke;Ron Tamborini;Matthew Grizzard;Robert Lewis

  • Moral Intuition and Media Entertainment

    Ron Tamborini

  • Violent Virtual Video Games and Hostile Thoughts

    Ron Tamborini;Matthew S. Eastin;Paul Skalski;Kenneth Lachlan

  • Reacting to Graphic Horror A Model of Empathy and Emotional Behavior

    Ron Tamborini;James Stiff;Carl Heidel

  • Being Bad in a Video Game Can Make Us Morally Sensitive

    Matthew Grizzard;Ron Tamborini;Robert Joel Lewis;Lu Wang

  • Testing a Dual-Process Model of Media Enjoyment and Appreciation

    Robert J. Lewis;Ron Tamborini;René Weber

  • Task demand and mood repair: The intervention potential of computer games

    Nicholas David Bowman;Ron Tamborini

  • Facilitating Game Play: How Others Affect Performance at and Enjoyment of Video Games

    Nicholas David Bowman;Rene Weber;Ron Tamborini;John Sherry

  • Television Exposure and the Public's Perceptions of Physicians

    Rebecca M. Chory-Assad;Ron Tamborini

  • Sports spectators' suspense: Affect and uncertainty in sports entertainment

    Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick;Prabu David;Matthew S. Eastin;Ron Tamborini

  • SELECTING CRIME DRAMA AND APPREHENSION ABOUT CRIME

    Jacob Wakshlag;Virginia Vial;Ronald Tamborini

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Lachlan
Kenneth A. Lachlan University of Connecticut
Dana Mastro
Dana Mastro University of California, Santa Barbara
Leonard Reinecke
Leonard Reinecke Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Matthew S. Eastin
Matthew S. Eastin The University of Texas at Austin
Mary Beth Oliver
Mary Beth Oliver Pennsylvania State University
Gary Bente
Gary Bente Michigan State University
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Dolf Zillmann
Dolf Zillmann University of Alabama
Klaus Mathiak
Klaus Mathiak RWTH Aachen University

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