Peer-Reviewed Articles

Hutton, J.S., Piotrowski, J.T., Bagot, K., Blumberg, F., Canli, T., Chein, J., Christakis, D.A., Grafman, J., Griffin, J.A., Hummer, T., Kuss, D., Lerner, M., Marcovitch, S., Paulus, M.P., Perlman, G., Romeo, R., Thomason, M.E., Turel, O., Weinstein, A., West, G., Hurst-Della Pietra, P., Potenza, M.N. (submitted). Digital Media and Developing Brains: Concerns and Opportunities. JAMA Pediatrics.

Wald, R., Piotrowski, J.T., Araujo, T., & van Oosten, J.M.F. (in press). Virtual assistants in the family home: Understanding parents’ motivations to use virtual assistants with their child(ren). Computers in Human Behavior.

van der Wal, A., Piotrowski, J.T., Valkenburg, P.M. (in press). Just a joke? Adolescents’ preferences for humor in media entertainment and real-life aggression. Media Psychology.

Piotrowski, J.T. & Broekman, F. (2022). Haptics and hotspots: Creating usable and educational apps for children. Journal of Children & Media.

Piotrowki, J.T. (2021) My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-room, Journal of Children and Media, 15:1, 142-145, doi: 10.1080/17482798.2020.1858906

Broekman, F., Smeets, R., Bouwers, E., & Piotrowski, J.T. (2021). Exploring the summer slide in the Netherlands. International Journal of Educational Research, 107. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101746 [Advance Online Copy]

Ohme, J., Araujo, T., de Vreese, C.H., & Piotrowski, J.T. (2020). Mobile data donations: Assessing self-report accuracy and sample biases with the iOS Screen Time function. Mobile Media & Communication. [Advance Online Copy]

van der Wal, A., Piotrowski, J.T., Valkenburg, P.M., & Fikkers, K. M. (2020). More than Just a Laughing Matter: A Coding Framework of Humor in Media Entertainment for Tweens and Teens, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 64:3, 478-498, doi: 10.1080/08838151.2020.1796389

Fikkers, K.M. & Piotrowski, J.T. (2020). Content and Person Effects in Media Research: Studying Differences in Cognitive, Emotional, and Arousal Responses to Media Content. Media Psychology, 23, p. 493-520. doi:10.1080/15213269.2019.1608257

Beyens, I., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2020). Which Came First? Assessing transactional relationships between children’s violent media use and ADHD-related behaviors. Communication Research. 47, p. 1228-1245. doi: 10.1177/0093650218782300

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2019). Child’s play? Assessing the Bidirectional longitudinal relationship between gaming and intelligence in early childhood. Journal of Communication. doi:10.1093/joc/jqz003 Accompanying Mplus output: (1) Model for fluid intelligence, (2) Model for crystallized intelligence

Beyens, I., Valkenburg, P.M., & Piotrowski, J.T. (2019). Developmental Trajectories of Parental Mediation across Early and Middle Childhood. Human Communication Research, 45, 226-250. doi:10.1093/hcr/hqy016

Beyens, I., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2018). Screen media use and ADHD-related behaviors: Four decades of research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 115(40), 9875-9881.doi:10.1073/pnas.1611611114

Piotrowski, J.T. & Meester, L. (2018). Can apps support creativity in middle childhood? Computers in Human Behavior, 85, 23–33. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.03.030

Broekman, F., Piotrowski, J.T., Beentjes, H.W.J., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2018). App features that fulfill parents’ needs in apps for children. Mobile Media & Communication, 6(3) 367-389. doi:0.1177/2050157918759571

Jordan, A.B., Bleakley, A., Mallya, G., Hennessy, M., & Piotrowski, J.T. (2018). Do you know what your kids are drinking? Evaluation of a media campaign to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. American Journal of Health Promotion. doi:10.1177/0890117117721320

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2017). A matter of style? The differential effects of parental mediation on early adolescents’ media violence exposure and aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 407-415. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.029

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2017). Assessing the reliability and validity of game and TV violence exposure measures. Communication Research, 44(1) 117-143. doi:10.1177/0093650215573863

Piotrowski, J.T. & Krcmar, M. (2017). Reading with hotspots: How young children respond to touchscreen stories. Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 328-334. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.010

Busse, P. & Piotrowski, J.T. (2016, Online First). Assessing the longitudinal relationship between Peruvian children’s TV exposure and unhealthy food consumption. Journal of Children and Media. doi: 10.1080/17482798.2016.1243565

Vossen, H.G.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2016, Online First). The longitudinal relationship between media violence and empathy: Was it sympathy all along? Media Psychology, 20(2) 175-193. doi:10.1080/15213269.2015.1121825

Nikkelen, S., Vossen, H.G.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2016). Media violence and adolescents’ ADHD-related behaviors: The role of parental mediation. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 60, 657-675. doi: 10.1080/08838151.2016.1234476

Broekman, F., Piotrowski, J.T., Beentjes, H.W.J., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2016). A parental perspective on apps for young children. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 142-152. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.017.

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2016). Beyond the lab: Investigating early adolescents’ cognitive, emotional, and arousal Responses to violent games. Computers in Human Behavior, 60, 542-549. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.055

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Lugtig, P.J., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2016). The role of perceived peer norms in the relationship between media violence exposure and adolescents’ aggression. Media Psychology, 19, 4-26. doi:10.1080/15213269.2015.1037960

Piotrowski, J.T. & Valkenburg, P.M. (2015). Finding orchids in a field of dandelions: Understanding children’s differential susceptibility to media effects. American Behavioral Scientist, 59, 1776-1789. doi:10.1177/0002764215596552

Piotrowski, J.T., Jordan, A.B., Bleakley, A., & Hennessy, M. (2015). Identifying family television practices to reduce children’s television time. Journal of Family Communication, 15, 159-174. doi:10.1080/15267431.2015.1013107

Hennessy, M., Bleakley, A., Piotrowski, J.T., Mallya, G., & Jordan, A.B. (2015). Sugar-Sweetened beverage consumption by adult caregivers and their children: The role of drink features and advertising exposure. Health Education & Behavior, 42, 677-686. doi:10.1177/1090198115577379

Vossen, H.G.M., Piotrowski, J.T., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2015). Development of the Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (AMES). Personality & Individual Differences, 74, 66-71. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.040

Lapierre, M.A., Piotrowski, J.T., & Linebarger, D.L. (2014). Assessing the relationship between pediatric media guidance and media use in American families. Clinical Pediatrics, 53(12), 1166-1173. doi:10.1177/0009922814540038

Piotrowski, J.T. (2014). Participatory cues and program familiarity predict young children’s learning from educational television. Media Psychology, 17(3), 311-331. doi:10.1080/15213269.2014.932288

Linebarger, D.L., Barr, R., Lapierre, M.A., & Piotrowski, J.T. (2014). Associations between parenting, media use, cumulative risk, and children’s executive functioning. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 35, 367-377. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000069

Piotrowski, J.T., Litman, J.A., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2014). Measuring epistemic curiosity in young children. Infant and Child Development, 23(5), 542-553. doi:10.1002/icd.1847

Piotrowski, J.T. (2014). The relationship between narrative processing demands and young American children’s comprehension of educational television. Journal of Children and Media, 8, 267-285. doi:10.1080/17482798.2013.878740

Liebeskind, K. G., Piotrowski, J.T., Lapierre, M.A., & Linebarger, D.L. (2014). The home literacy environment: Exploring how media and parent-child interactions are associated with children’s language production. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 14, 482-509. doi:10.1177/1468798413512850

Bleakley, A., Piotrowski, J.T., Hennessy, M., & Jordan, A. (2013). Predictors of parents’ intention to limit children’s television viewing. Journal of Public Health, 35(4), 525-532. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fds104

Valkenburg, P.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Hermanns, J., de Leeuw, R. (2013). Development and validation of the perceived parental media mediation scale: A self-determination perspective. Human Communication Research, 39 (4), 445-469. doi:10.1111/hcre.12010

Fikkers, K. M., Piotrowski, J.T., Weeda, W., Vossen, H.G.M., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2013). Double dose: High family conflict enhances the effect of media violence exposure on adolescents’ aggression. Societies, 3(3), 280-292. doi:10.3390/soc3030280

Piotrowski, J. T., Lapierre, M. A., & Linebarger, D. (2013). Investigating correlates of self-regulation in early childhood with a representative sample of English-speaking American families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22(3), 423-436. doi:10.1007/s10826-012-9595-z

Piotrowski, J.T., Jennings, N., & Linebarger, D.L. (2013). Extending the lessons of educational television with young American children. Journal of Children and Media, 7(2), 216-234. doi:10.1080/17482798.2012.693053

Lapierre, M.A., Piotrowski, J.T., & Linebarger, D.L. (2012). Background television in the homes of U.S. children. Pediatrics, 130(5), 839-846. doi:10.1542/peds.2011-2581

Jordan, A.B., Piotrowski, J.T., Bleakley, A. & Mallya, G. (2012). Developing media interventions to reduce household sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 640, 118-135.

Sanders-Jackson, A.N., Cappella, J.N., Linebarger, D.L., Piotrowski, J.T., O’Keeffe, M., Strasser, A.A & Lerman, C. (2011). Visual attention to anti-smoking PSAs: Smoking cues versus other attention-grabbing features. Human Communication Research, 37, 275-292.

Linebarger, D. L., & Piotrowski, J. T. (2010). Structure and strategies in children’s educational television: The roles of program type and learning strategies in children’s learning. Child Development, 81(5), 1582-1597.

Linebarger, D. L., Piotrowski, J. T., & Greenwood, C. R. (2010). Onscreen print: The role of captions as a supplemental literacy tool. Journal of Research in Reading, 33, 148-167.

Linebarger, D. L., & Piotrowski, J. T. (2009). TV as Storyteller: How exposure to television narratives impacts at-risk preschoolers’ story knowledge and narrative skills. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 47-69.

Linebarger, D.L., & Piotrowski, J.T. (2008). Evaluating the educational potential of health public service announcements with preschoolers. Health Communication, 23, 516-525.