Too Imprecise and Too Inconsistent? Challenges for Media Psychology and Effects Theorizing – and Possible Solutions

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<p>The replication crisis has revealed shortcomings in theorizing, yet its implications for communication science remain underexplored. Focusing on media psychology and effects, we diagnose two core problems in the field’s theory development—imprecision and inconsistency. These arise from both general challenges of theorizing about human behavior and psychology and seven field-specific obstacles, including high me...

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60a7be4a-032a-59d2-8e01-76956b547156

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10.31234/osf.io/hsk2v_v1