Recent
Publications

  • Hahn, L., Aley, M., Frank, A., & Lattimer, T. (2024). What can Disney teach young audiences? A research brief investigating the values emphasized in family-rated Walt Disney films. Journal of Children and Media, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2402268 [PDF]

  • Schibler, K., Hahn, L., & Lankford, A. (2024). Investigating 55 years of mass shooter statements in the United States: A study of perpetrators’ stated motivations and their association with attack severity. Communication Monographs, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2024.2349584 [PDF]

  • Hahn, L., Schibler, K., Lattimer, T., Toh, Z., Vuich, A., Velho, R., Kryston, K., O’Leary, J., & Chen, S. (2024). Why we fight: Investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity. Journal of Communication, 75(1), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad029 [PDF]

  • Hahn, L., Tamborini, R., Aley, M., Baldwin, J., & Grady, S. (2024). Early adolescents can extract distinct moral lessons from narrative media content. Media Psychology, 27(1), 26-49 https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2219457 [PDF]

  • Schibler, K., Hahn, L., & Green, M. C. (2024). Investigating audience responses to cliffhangers in written narratives using affective disposition theory. Media Psychology, 27(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2219456 [PDF]

  • Hahn, L., Schibler, K., Toh, Z., Lattimer, T., O’Leary, J., & Spaaij, R. (2023). Investigating the role of morality in the motivations and attack severity of lone-actor terrorists. Terrorism and Political Violence, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2023.2282461 [PDF]

  • Aley, M. & Hahn, L. (2023). Altruistic and egoistic motivations of male and female characters in Common Sense Media television programming for children. Sex Roles, 89, 347-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01372-y [PDF]

    Hahn, L., Aley, M., Frank, A., Lawrence, C., & Lattimer, T. (2022). Examining the motivations of Walt Disney heroes and villains and their association with audience appeal and future film production. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 66(5), 843-863. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2022.2120879 [PDF]

  • Hahn, L., Tamborini, R., Prabhu, S., Grall, C., Novotny, E., & Klebig, B. (2022). Narrative media's emphasis on distinct moral intuitions alters early adolescents' judgments. Journal of Media Psychology, 34(3), 177-187. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000307 [PDF]

  • Hahn, L. (2022). Moral clarity decreases as viewer age increases: A content analysis of the moral values and reinforcement clarity depicted in popular U.S. children’s television. Journal of Children and Media, 16(2), 168-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2021.1943475 [PDF]