Peer-Reviewed Articles

Hutton, J.S., Piotrowski, J.T., Bagot, K., Blumberg, F., Canli, T., Chein, J….Potenza, M. (2024) Digital Media and Developing Brains: Concerns and Opportunities. Current Addiction Reports doi: 10.1007/s40429-024-00545-3.

Heemskerk, D., Busch, V., Piotrowski, J.T., Waterlander, W.W., Renders, C.M., & van Stralen, M.M. (2024). A system dynamics approach to understand Dutch adolescents’ sleep health using a causal loop diagram. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. doi: 10.1186/s12966-024-01571-0.

Wald, R., Piotrowski, J.T., van Oosten, J.M.F., Araujo, T. (2023). Who are the (Non)Adopters of Smart Speakers? A Cross-Sectional Survey Study of Dutch Families. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap. doi: 10.5117/TCW2023.X.001.WALD.

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, 139. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107526.

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.