Moral Media – April 2025

The Representation of Moral Intuitions in Stories Created by ChatGPT

• Joshua Baldwin (U Georgia)

Villain as Rival: The Influence of Moral and China Threat Language in American News Coverage on Public Opinion about China

• Xining Liao (U Wisconsin-Madison)

The Ecological Determinants of Morality: A Global Analysis of News Media Content

• Musa Malik (U California, Santa Barbara), Kylie Falcione (U California, Santa Barbara), Brittany Wheeler (U California, Santa Barbara), & René Weber (U California, Santa Barbara, Ewha Womans U)

The Effectiveness of Moral Appeals in Tobacco Pictorial Control Messages: A Comparative Experiment Between American and Chinese Smokers

• Thomas H. Zhang (U Wisconsin-Madison), Xiaohui Cao (U Wisconsin-Madison), Yidi Wang (U California, Santa Barbara), Jiaying Liu (U California, Santa Barbara), Shiwen Wu (Wuhan University), & Sijia Yang (U Wisconsin-Madison)

Chair: Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo)

Large Language Models Exhibit Human-Like Biases in Moral Judgments of Harm by and to Insiders and Outsiders

• Sarah M. Müller (Leibniz Institute for Psychology) & Frederic R. Hopp (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)

Who Acknowledges What Harm With What Effect? Investigating U.S. Congressional Twitter Posts about Mass Shootings and Audience Responses to Them

• Emily Lapan (U Buffalo), Raphaela Velho (U Buffalo), Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo), Tahleen Lattimer(U Buffalo), Madeline Taggart (U Buffalo), Stephanie Gillis (U Buffalo), Kyle Heneveld (U Buffalo), & Lindsay Hahn (U Buffalo)

Testing the Morally Engaging Influences of Visual Depictions of Bodily Suffering

• Rebecca Frazer (U Florida), Tse-hsi Chien (U Florida), Matthew Grizzard (Ohio State U), & Xiaotong Yu (U Florida)

Not Just Another Identical Stormtrooper: The Effect of Enemy Humanizing Cues on Videogame Player Guilt and Enjoyment

• Morgan E. Ellithorpe (U Delaware) & M. Marie Devlin (U Delaware)

Moral Foundations in Adolescents’ Social Media Posts: Insights from a Cross-National Data Donation Study

• Kaitlin Fitzgerald (Cornell U), Anaëlle J. Gonzalez (KU Leuven), Kristina Rakinić (U Ljubljana), Bojana Lobe (U Ljubljana) , & Laura Vandenbosch (KU Leuven)

Chair: Madeline Taggart (U Buffalo)

Not Only Moral Panic: Parents’ Multi-Faceted Comments about Media and Parenting Gender-Expansive Youth

• Marie-Louise Mares (U Wisconsin-Madison), Matthew Meier (U Wisconsin-Madison), Bengisu Şimşek (U Wisconsin-Madison), Marina Krcmar (Wake Forest U), Luhang Sun (U Wisconsin-Madison), Sijia Yang (U Wisconsin-Madison), & Xiaotong Zhang (U Wisconsin-Madison)

The Moral Influence of Adolescents’ Favorite Influencers and TV Characters: A Three-Wave Panel Study of Media, Selection, and Reciprocal Effects

• Anaëlle J. Gonzalez (KU Leuven), Lindsay Hahn (U Buffalo), & Laura Vandenbosch (KU Leuven)

The Artist and the Art: How Fans Respond to Story Creators’ Moral Violations

• Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo), Melanie C. Green (U Buffalo), & John J. Brooks (U Buffalo)

Decoding Morality in Film: Bridging Human and Computational Analysis of Moral Scenes

• Alex Lover (Michigan State U), Jacob T. Fisher (Michigan State U), Manushka Sondhi (Michigan State U), Ezgi Ulusoy (Michigan State U), Sara Grady (Ohio State U), & Allison Eden (Michigan State U)

Dying in Primetime: An Analysis of This Is Us’ Portrayal of Caregiving and Advance Care Planning with Alzheimer’s Disease

• Kelly Tenzek (U Buffalo), Tahleen Lattimer (U Buffalo), Emily Lapan (U Buffalo), & Hua Wang (U Buffalo)

Chair: Daniel Kulesza (U Buffalo)

Previewing Project SHADE: Anthropomorphic Language Effects on Human Judgments of AI Moral Violations

• Jaime Banks (Syracuse U)

Moral Intuitions of the Bible: A Comparative Content Analysis

• Brian Klebig (Bethany Lutheran College)

Opposing Altruistic and Egoistic Effects of Game Violence on Prosocial Behavior

• Sujay Prabhu (Michigan State U), Ron Tamborini (Michigan State U), Joshua Baldwin (U Georgia), & Yan Wang (Michigan State U)

Liking Across Moral Categories: Applying Qualitative Analysis to Disposition Formation

• Lucy Brown (Ohio State U), Matthew Grizzard (Ohio State U), & Nicholas L. Matthews (Ohio State U)

Investigating the Roles of Media and Morality in Perpetrators’ Motivations for Extremist Violence

• Madeline Taggart (U Buffalo), Tahleen Lattimer (U Buffalo), Madison Neurohr (U Buffalo), Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo), Emily Lapan (U Buffalo), & Lindsay Hahn (U Buffalo)

Exploring How ‘Humorous’ Extremist Memes Affect Audience Moral Judgments Toward Outgroups

• Kyle Heneveld (U Buffalo), Tahleen Lattimer (U Buffalo), Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo), Emily Lapan (U Buffalo), Rhyner Washburn (U Maryland), Steve Sin (U Maryland), & Lindsay Hahn (U Buffalo)

1. The Use of Moral Intuitions for Evaluative Conditioning in Narrative Entertainment

• Henry Goble (Michigan State U), Ron Tamborini (Michigan State U), Joshua Baldwin (U Georgia), Sujay Prabhu (Michigan State U), & Yan Wang (Michigan State U)

2. How Political Identities Affect Media Choices: Gendered Violence Content Consumption

• Bengisu Şimşek (U Wisconsin-Madison) & Marie-Louise Mares (U Wisconsin-Madison)

3. Behavioral Modification of Moral Intuitions in Children’s Narrative Content

• Jenna Wahl (U Buffalo) & Madeline Taggart (U Buffalo)

4. Work in Progress: Investigating the Role of Psychological Distance in Disposition Formation Toward Narrative Characters

• Junwan Seo (U Buffalo)

5. Power of Bios: Unintended Consequences of Online Identity Signaling in Social Media Bios

• Jackson Trager (U Southern California), Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi (U Southern California), Suhaib Abdurahman (U Southern California), Yalda Daryani (U Southern California), & Morteza Dehghani (U Southern California)

6. Beyond Generalizations: The Multidimensional Nature of Empathy and Its Impact on Theory

• Daniel Kulesza (U Buffalo)

7. Traditional on TikTok: Investigating the Appeal of Tradwife Influencers through Moral Psychology & Gender Roles

• Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo), Yi Yin Leong (U Buffalo), Tahleen Lattimer (U Buffalo), Stephanie Gillis (U Buffalo), & Madeline Taggart (U Buffalo)

8. Hybrid Imaginaries: Value Orientations and Mental Models for Human-Machine Integration

• Alexis Bohlander (Syracuse U) & Jaime Banks (Syracuse U)

9. Audience Backlash and Paradox of Popularity: The Endurance of Controversial Celebrity Podcasts in Bangladesh

• Himika Akram (U Kentucky)

10. Moral Emotions and Emotional Contagion Amplify School Shooter Ideologies in Written Content

• Madison Neurohr (U Buffalo)

1. Story World Norms and Moral Judgment of Characters

• Catherine A. Marple (Michigan State U) & Nancy Rhodes (Michigan State U)

2. Exploring Motivations Behind Verbal Abuse Toward Conversational Agents

• Zhixin Li (Syracuse U)

3. Morality and the Machine: How we React to Mistreatment of Artificial Intelligence

• Gavin Raffloer (U Buffalo), Melanie Green (U Buffalo), Daniel Kulesza (U Buffalo), & Hao Chen (U Buffalo)

4. Examining How Viewing Context Shapes Moral Judgment of Media Characters

• Hao Chen (U Buffalo)

5. Partisanship in Moral Responses to Immigrants Causing Harm

• Raphaela M. Velho (U Buffalo), Hao Chen (U Buffalo), Dan Kulesza (U Buffalo), & Emily Black (U Buffalo)

6. Meaningful Grief? Media Depictions of Death and Bereavement

• Kelly Tenzek (U Buffalo) & Kaitlin Fitzgerald (Cornell U)

7. Watch Out!: Moral Evaluation of “Othered Bodies,” Lateral Surveillance, and Digital Vigilantism in Online Neighborhood Watch Groups

• Srividya Ramasubramanian (Syracuse U), Emilia Denerville (Syracuse U), & Camila Flores (Syracuse U)

8. Generative AI, Moral Polarization, and Cultural Equity: A Media Ecology Framework for the Noosphere

• Tiffany Petricini (Penn State Erie – The Behrend Campus)

9. Cult Classics: Investigating the Altruistic and Selfish Motivations Behind Cult Participation through Survivor Testimonies in Entertainment Media

• Tahleen A. Lattimer (U Buffalo), Irina Andreeva (U Buffalo), Madeline Taggart (U Buffalo), Madison Neurohr (U Buffalo), & Jenna Wahl (U Buffalo)

10. Pregnancy Resource Centers and the Global Expansion of Ultrasounds as Moral Media

• Molly Frizzell (U Southern California)

11. Does NEAR explain the appreciation of co-created video game narratives?

• Janaki Riji Nair (Syracuse U)& Nicholas David Bowman (Syracuse U)

12. A Scoping Review of Moral Decision-Making in Video Game Spaces

• Arienne Ferchaud (Florida State U), Gabrielle Lamura (Florida State U), & Sazzad Mahmud Shuvo (Florida State U)