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Reel Bodies: How Television Depictions of Weight Stigma Impact Future Health Professionals (2026)
Abortion Depictions on Television: Impact on Audience Knowledge and Mobilization (2024)Change The Narrative, Change The World: The Power of Immigrant Representation on Television (2022)
A Glaring Absence: The Climate Crisis Is Virtually Nonexistent in Scripted Entertainment (2022)
If He Can See It, Will He Be It? Representations of Masculinity in Boys’ Television (2020)
See Jane TV: Historic Screen Time & Speaking Time for Female Characters (2020)
See Jane Film: Historic Gender Parity in Family Films (2020)
See Jane TV: Historic Parity in Children’s Television (2019)
Taking the Lead: Girls and Young Women on the Changing Face of Leadership (2019)
Portray Her: Representations of Women STEM Characters in Media (2018)
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The Power of Abortion Storytelling, Ms. Magazine. 2024.
How Shows Like ‘Reservation Dogs’ Flipped the Script on Native Representation on TV. Yahoo. 2024.
Asian Representation Is Up — Now, for More Nuance. The Hollywood Reporter. 2023.
Discussing the impact of gun storylines on Scripps News (Formerly Newsy). 2022.
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Nielson, M.G., Ward, L.M., Seabrook, R.C., & Giaccardi, S. (2022). The roots and fruits of masculinity: Social antecedents and sexual relationship consequences of young men’s adherence to masculine norms.The Journal of Sex Research.
Seabrook, R.C., Ward, L.M. & Giaccardi, S. (2018). Less than human? Media use, objectification of women, and men's acceptance of sexual aggression.Psychology of Violence.
Gilbert, M., Giaccardi, S., & Ward, L.M. (2018). Contributions of game genre and masculinity ideology to associations between video game use and men’s risk-taking behavior.Media Psychology.
Seabrook, R.C., Ward, L.M. & Giaccardi, S. (2018). Why is fraternity membership associated with sexual assault? Exploring the roles of conformity to masculine norms, pressure to uphold masculinity, and objectification of women.Psychology of Men and Masculinity.
Giaccardi, S., Ward, L.M., Seabrook, R.C., & Lippman, J.R. (2017). Media use and men’s risk behaviors: Examining the role of masculinity ideology. Sex Roles.
Ward, L.M., Seabrook, R.C., Grower, P., Giaccardi, S., & Lippman, J. (2017). Sexual object or sexual subject: Media use, self-sexualization, and sexual agency among undergraduate women. Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Seabrook, R.C., Ward, L.M., Cortina, L., Giaccardi, S., & Lippman, J.R. (2017). Girl power, or powerless girl? Television, sexual scripts, and sexual agency in young women. Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Hanna, E., Ward, L. M., Seabrook, R., Jerald, M., Reed, L., Giaccardi, S., & Lippman, J. (2017). Contributions of social comparison and self-objectification in mediating associations between Facebook use and emergent adults’ well-being. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
Seabrook, R.C., Ward, L.M., Reed, L., Manago, A., Giaccardi, S. & Lippman, J.R. (2016). Our scripted sexuality: The development and validation of a measure of the heterosexual script and its relation to television consumption. Emerging Adulthood. doi: 10.1177/2167696815623686
Giaccardi, S., Ward, L.M., Seabrook, R.C., Manago, A., & Lippman, J.R. (2016). Media and modern manhood: Testing associations between media consumption and young men’s acceptance of traditional gender ideologies. Sex Roles 75(3), 151-163. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0588-z
Ward, L.M., Erickson, S.E., Giaccardi, S., & Lippman, J.R., (2016). Sexual media content and effects. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.2
Ward, L. M., Seabrook, R.C., Giaccardi, S., & Zuo, A. (2014). Television uses and effects in emerging adulthood. In J. Arnett (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Emerging Adulthood. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795574.013.26.