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  1. There is no evidence that time spent on social media is correlated with adolescent mental health problems: Findings from a meta-analysis.

    Article • Professional Psychology Research and Practice, October 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  2. Do social media experiments prove a link with mental health: A methodological and meta-analytic review.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media, May 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  3. Cyberbullying and its relation to right and left authoritarianism, trait victimhood, and mental illness.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media, April 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  4. Like this meta-analysis: Screen media and mental health.

    Article • Professional Psychology Research and Practice, April 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson, Professor Linda Kaye, James Ivory

  5. Providing a lower-bound estimate for psychology’s “crud factor”: The case of aggression.

    Article • Professional Psychology Research and Practice, December 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  6. Who are GamerGate? A descriptive study of individuals involved in the GamerGate controversy.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  7. Excessive use of technology

    Article • Communications of the ACM, December 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christopher Ferguson

  8. Examining the effects of exposure to a sexualized female video game protagonist on women’s body image.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media Culture, July 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  9. Policy on unreliable game addiction diagnoses puts the cart before the horse.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media Culture, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  10. Lack of consensus among scholars on the issue of video game “addiction”.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media Culture, May 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  11. News Media Coverage of Crime and Violent Drug Crime: A Case for Cause or Catalyst?

    Article • Justice Quarterly, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Ferguson

  12. Movie smoking does not cause teens to smoke more.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media Culture, November 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  13. Sex, Lies and Videogames

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Christopher Ferguson

  14. Little evidence thin-ideal media causes eating disorders in women.

    Article • Archives of Scientific Psychology, August 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Christopher Ferguson

  15. Social Learning, Social Disorganization, and Psychological Risk Factors for Criminal Gangs in a British Youth Context

    Article • Deviant Behavior, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Ferguson

  16. A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err on the side of caution

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, March 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Christopher Ferguson

  17. Scholars’ open debate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, September 2017, Akademiai Kiado

    Christopher Ferguson

  18. The Hitman Study

    Article • European Psychologist, January 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Christopher Ferguson

  19. Violence and Sex as Advertising Strategies in Television Commercials

    Article • European Psychologist, January 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Christopher Ferguson