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2024

Ju, Youngkee, Scherr, Sebastian, Arendt, Florian, You, Myoungsoon, & Prieler, Michael (in press). Little strokes fell big oaks: how repeated recommendations for suicide reporting drive the quality of suicide news in South Korea. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, . https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228241228007 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Lueck, Jennifer A., Callaghan, Timothy, & Scherr, Sebastian (2024). Suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic: investigating mental health, COVID-19 health beliefs, and news media consumption in the United States population in the year 2020. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 88(3), 1168-1180. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211062361 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Zhu, Yijia, Zeid, Nour, Leiner, Dominik J., & Scherr, Sebastian (in press). What motivates information (non-)seeking behaviors about a healthy diet?. Journal of Health Psychology, . https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241245263 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2023

Scherr, Sebastian, Arendt, Florian, & Haim, Mario (2023). Algorithms without frontiers? How language-based algorithmic information disparities for suicide crisis information sustain digital divides over time in 17 countries. Information, Communication & Society, 26(14), 2690-2706. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2022.2097017 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Temmann, Linn Julia, Reifegerste, Doreen, Wiedicke, Annemarie, & Scherr, Sebastian (2023). Effects of health responsibility frames: testing a mediation model of attributions, emotions, and social support intentions. Journal of Health Communication, 28(8), 552-561. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2023.2232326 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Ju, Youngkee, Scherr, Sebastian, & Prieler, Michael (in press). How do recommended elements in suicide news coverage work? An investigation of the effect of responsible reporting and readers' reflectiveness on suicide prevention. Health Communication, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2247154 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Lee, Sungmin, Lee, Ryun Jung, & Scherr, Sebastian (2023). How tree canopy cover can reduce urban suicide attempts: a geospatial analysis of the moderating role of area deprivation. Landscape and Urban Planning, 230, 104606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104606 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Markiewitz, Antonia, & Scherr, Sebastian (2023). News for life: improving the quality of journalistic news reporting to prevent suicides. Journal of Communication, 73(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqac039 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2022

Yin, Xue-Qin, Zhang, Xin-Xue, Scherr, Sebastian, & Wang, Jin-Liang (2022). Browsing makes you feel less bad: an ecological momentary assessment of passive Qzone use and young women's negative emotions. Psychiatry Research, 309, 114373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114373 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Wang, Kexin & Scherr, Sebastian (2022). Dance the night away: how automatic TikTok use creates pre-sleep cognitive arousal and daytime fatigue. Mobile Media & Communication, 10(2), 316-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579211056116 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Reifegerste, Doreen, Arendt, Florian, van Weert, Julia C. M., & Alden, Dana L. (2022). Family involvement in medical decision making in Europe and the United States: a replication and extension in five countries. Social Science & Medicine, 301, 114932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114932 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Yin, Xue-Qin, Scherr, Sebastian, Jin, Lin, Gaskin, James, & Wang, Jin-Liang (2022). Impressions matter more than privacy: the moderating roles of affordances in the relation between social anxiety and online safety-seeking behaviors. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 16(3), 1. https://doi.org/10.5817/cp2022-3-1 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Chen, Y. Anthony, Fan, Tingting, Toma, Catalina L., & Scherr, Sebastian (2022). International students' psychosocial well-being and social media use at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent profile analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 137, 107409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107409 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Zhu, Yijian & Scherr, Sebastian (2022). Is the devil walking among us? How dominant episodic and thematic framing shapes criminal stereotypes depending on social distance. 72nd Annual ICA Conference, 26-30 May 2022, Paris, FranceWashington, DC: International Communication Association. BibTeX | RIS

Scherr, Sebastian (2022). Social media, self-harm, and suicide. Current Opinion in Psychology, 46, 101311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101311 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Baugut, Philip & Scherr, Sebastian (2022). The news expectation predicament: comparing and explaining what audiences expect from the roles and reporting practices of reporters on right-wing extremism. Journalism, 23(5), 973-991. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884921996307 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Wiedicke, Annemarie, Reifegerste, Doreen, Temmann, Linn Julia, & Scherr, Sebastian (2022). Verbal and visual framing of responsibility for type 1 diabetes by patient influencers on Instagram. Social Media + Society, 8(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221136114 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2021

Temmann, Linn Julia, Wiedicke, Annemarie, Schaller, Sophia, Scherr, Sebastian, & Reifegerste, Doreen (2021). A systematic review of responsibility frames and their effects in the health context. Journal of Health Communication, 26(12), 828-838. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.2020381 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Wang, Kexin (2021). Explaining the success of social media with gratification niches: motivations behind daytime, nighttime, and active use of TikTok in China. Computers in Human Behavior, 124, 106893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106893 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Haim, Mario, Scherr, Sebastian, & Arendt, Florian (2021). How search engines may help reduce drug-related suicides. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 226, 108874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108874 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Markiewitz, Antonia, & Scherr, Sebastian (2021). Investigating suicide-related subliminal messages on Instagram: a frame-by-frame analysis of video posts. Crisis, 42(4), 263-269. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000717 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Arendt, Florian, Prieler, Michael, & Ju, Youngkee (in press). Investigating the negative-cognitive-triad-hypothesis of news choice in Germany and South Korea: does depression predict selective exposure to negative news?. The Social Science Journal, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2020.1859817 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Reifegerste, Doreen, Wiedicke, Annemarie, Temmann, Linn Julia, & Scherr, Sebastian (2021). Mut zur Lücke: Verantwortungszuschreibungen auf der Ebene sozialer Beziehungen als neuer Bereich der Framing-Forschung zu Gesundheitsthemen. Publizistik, 66, 255-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-021-00652-5 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Leiner, Dominik (2021). The populist hotbed: how political attitudes, resentment, and justice beliefs predict both exposure to and avoidance of specific populist news features in the United States. PLoS ONE, 16(10), e0258220. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258220 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian (2021). Traditional media use and depression in the general population: evidence for a non-linear relationship. Current Psychology, 40(2), 957-972. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-0020-7 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Temmann, Linn Julia, Wiedicke, Annemarie, Reifegerste, Doreen, & Scherr, Sebastian (2021). Verantwortungsattribution als Wirkung von Responsibility Frames: eine Experimentalstudie unter Berücksichtigung der sozialen Netzwerkebene. In Freya Sukalla & Charmaine Voigt (Eds.), Risiken und Potenziale in der Gesundheitskommunikation: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Gesundheitskommunikation 2020 (pp. 108-120). Leipzig: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e.V.. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.74692 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Markiewitz, Antonia, Arendt, Florian, & Scherr, Sebastian (2021). Verantwortungsvolle Berichterstattung über Suizide: Forschungsüberblick und Empfehlungen für die journalistische Praxis. Medienjournal: Zeitschrift für Medien-und Kommunkiationsforschung, 44(3), 50-68. https://doi.org/10.24989/medienjournal.v44i3.1804 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2020

Markiewitz, Antonia, Arendt, Florian, & Scherr, Sebastian (2020). #suizid: zur Darstellung von Suizid in sozialen Netzwerken und den möglichen Auswirkungen auf Jugendliche. Kind, Jugend, Gesellschaft (KJuG): Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendschutz, 65(1), 19-25. BibTeX | RIS | URL

Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas, Braun, Marlies, Pirkis, Jane, Till, Benedikt, Stack, Steven, Sinyor, Mark, Tran, Ulrich S., Voracek, Martin, Cheng, Qijin, Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, Yip, Paul S. F., & Spittal, Matthew J. (2020). Association between suicide reporting in the media and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ, 2020(368), m575. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m575 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Zhou, Jing (2020). Automatically identifying relevant variables for linear regression with the Lasso method: a methodological primer for its application with R and a performance contrast simulation with alternative selection strategies. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(3), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2019.1677882 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Markiewitz, Antonia, Mestas, Manina, & Scherr, Sebastian (2020). COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries. Social Science & Medicine, 265, 113532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113532 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Arendt, Florian, Frissen, Thomas, & Oramas M, José (2020). Detecting intentional self-harm on Instagram: development, testing, and validation of an automatic image-recognition algorithm to discover cutting-related posts. Social Science Computer Review, 38(6), 673-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319836389 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Markiewitz, Antonia, Arendt, Florian, & Scherr, Sebastian (2020). Increasing adherence to media guidelines on responsible reporting on suicide: suggestions from qualitative interviews with German journalists. Journalism Studies, 21(4), 494-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2019.1686412 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Haim, Mario, & Scherr, Sebastian (2020). Investigating Google's suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides using agent-based testing: a cross-national study in four European countries. Social Science & Medicine, 262, 112692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112692 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Goering, Mark (2020). Is a self-monitoring app for depression a good place for additional mental health information? Ecological momentary assessment of mental help information seeking among smartphone users. Health Communication, 35(8), 1004-1012. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1606135 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian (2020). Measuring contagion on social media. In Jan Van den Bulck, David R. Ewoldsen, Marie-Louise Mares, & Erica Scharrer (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of media psychology (pp. 1-6). Weinheim: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119011071.iemp0298 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian & Scherr, Sebastian (2020). News-stimulated public-attention dynamics and vaccination coverage during a measles outbreak: an observational study. Social Science & Medicine, 265, 113495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113495 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Markiewitz, Antonia, Arendt, Florian, & Scherr, Sebastian (2020). Problematische Suizid- und Selbstverletzungsdarstellungen auf Instagram: inhaltsanalytische Evidenz und aktuelle Entwicklungen. In Anja Kalch & Anna J. M. Wagner (Eds.), Gesundheitskommunikation und Digitalisierung: zwischen Lifestyle, Prävention und Krankheitsversorgung (pp. 149-160). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748900658-149 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Bartsch, Anne, Scherr, Sebastian, Mares, Marie-Louise, & Oliver, Mary Beth (2020). Reflective thoughts about violent media content – development of a bilingual self-report scale in English and German. Media Psychology, 23(6), 794-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1647248 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2019

Scherr, Sebastian, Toma, Catalina L., & Schuster, Barbara (2019). Depression as a predictor of Facebook surveillance and envy: longitudinal evidence from a cross-lagged panel study in Germany. Journal of Media Psychology, 31(4), 196-202. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000247 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Schuster, Barbara (2019). Depression und die Nutzung von Social Network Sites (SNS): differentielle Einflüsse von Selbstwirksamkeit auf die passive Nutzung von SNS und die Entstehung von Neid. Medien-Journal: Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung, 42(3), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.24989/medienjournal.v42i3.1743 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Markiewitz, Antonia, & Arendt, Florian (2019). Effectiveness of a workshop intervention on responsible reporting on suicide among Swiss media professionals. Crisis, 40(6), 446-450. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000584 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Markiewitz, Antonia, & Arendt, Florian (2019). Effectiveness of a workshop intervention on responsible reporting on suicide among Swiss media professionals. Crisis, 40(6), 446-450. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000584 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, & Romer, Daniel (2019). Effects of exposure to self-harm on social media: evidence from a two-wave panel study among young adults. New Media & Society, 21(11-12), 2422-2442. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819850106 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Haim, Mario, & Arendt, Florian (2019). Equal access to online information? Google's suicide-prevention disparities may amplify a global digital divide. New Media & Society, 21(3), 562-582. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818801010 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian & Scherr, Sebastian (2019). Investigating an issue–attention–action cycle: a case study on the chronology of media attention, public attention, and actual vaccination behavior during the 2019 measles outbreak in Austria. Journal of Health Communication, 24(7-8), 654-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2019.1652709 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, Pasek, Josh, Jamieson, Patrick E., & Romer, Daniel (2019). Investigating harmful and helpful effects of watching season 2 of 13 Reasons Why: results of a two-wave U.S. panel survey. Social Science & Medicine, 232, 489-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.04.007 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Mares, Marie-Louise, Bartsch, Anne, & Goetz, Maya (2019). Parents, television, and children's emotional expressions: a cross-cultural multilevel model. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50(1), 22-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022118806585 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Bartsch, Anne (2019). Pathologische Mediennutzung: von Internetsucht bis Binge-Watching. In Constanze Rossmann & Matthias R. Hastall (Eds.), Handbuch der Gesundheitskommunikation: kommunikationswissenschaftliche Perspektiven (pp. 281-292). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10727-7_22 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian (2019). Psychische Krankheiten in der Gesellschaft und in den Medien. In Constanze Rossmann & Matthias R. Hastall (Eds.), Handbuch der Gesundheitskommunikation: kommunikationswissenschaftliche Perspektiven (pp. 579-589). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10727-7_46 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Bachl, Marko, & de Vreese, Claes H. (2019). Searching for watchdogs: investigating journalistic role performance using latent-class analysis. Journalism Studies, 20(11), 1635-1652. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2018.1533417 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Baugut, Philip & Scherr, Sebastian (2019). Should the media be more or less powerful in politics? Individual and contextual explanations for politicians and journalists. Political Communication, 36(1), 127-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1517844 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2018

Till, Benedikt, Wild, Teresa A., Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, & Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas (2018). Associations of tabloid newspaper use with endorsement of suicide myths, suicide-related knowledge, and stigmatizing attitudes toward suicidal individuals. Crisis, 39(6), 428-437. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000516 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Steinleitner, Anna (2018). Between Werther and Papageno effects: a propositional meta-analysis of ambiguous findings for helpful and harmful media effects on suicide contagion. In Thomas Niederkrotenthaler & Steven Stack (Eds.), Media and suicide: international perspectives on research, theory, and policy (pp. 183-198). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351295246-20 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Till, Benedikt, Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, & Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas (2018). Effect of educative suicide prevention news articles featuring experts with vs without personal experience of suicidal ideation: a randomized controlled trial of the Papageno effect. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(1), 17m11975. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.17m11975 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas, Krallmann, Sabrina, & Till, Benedikt (2018). Effects of awareness material on suicide-related knowledge and the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals. Crisis, 39(1), 47-54. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000474 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Bartsch, Anne, Oliver, Mary Beth, Nitsch, Cordula, & Scherr, Sebastian (2018). Inspired by the paralympics: effects of empathy on audience interest in para-sports and on the destigmatization of persons with disabilities. Communication Research, 45(4), 525-553. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215626984 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Mares, Marie-Louise, Bartsch, Anne, & Götz, Maya (2018). On the relevance of parents and TV as socializers of 6–19 year-olds' expressions of emotion: representative data from Germany. Journal of Children and Media, 12(1), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2017.1365738 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Schmitt, Marlene (2018). Passive Facebook-Nutzung, selektive Selbstdarstellung und negative Wahrnehmungen des eigenen Lebens: Mehrgruppen cross-lagged Panelanalysen zu differentiellen Effekten im Kontext psychologischen Wohlbefindens. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 66(1), 58-74. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634x-2018-1-58 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas, & Till, Benedikt (2018). The role of language in suicide reporting: investigating the influence of problematic suicide referents. Social Science & Medicine, 208, 165-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.008 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Götz, Maya, Hofmann, Ole, Mendel, Caroline, Lemish, Dafna, Scherr, Sebastian, Gozansky, Yuval, Huang, Kirsten, Prommer, Elizabeth, Russo-Johnso, Colleen, Sanabri, Eileen, & Whitaker, Lynn (2018). Whose story is being told? Results of an analysis of children's TV in 8 countries. Televizion, 31(E), 61-65. BibTeX | RIS | URL

Scherr, Sebastian & Markiewitz, Antonia (2018). Woran erinnern sich Menschen bei medialen Suizidfällen und welche Rolle spielt dabei Empathie mit den Suizidenten? Empirische Befunde zur evidenzbasierten Suizidprävention. In Paula Stehr, Dorothee Heinemeier, & Costanze Rossmann (Eds.), Evidenzbasierte | evidenzinformierte Gesundheitskommunikation (pp. 231-240). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845291963-231 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2017

Arendt, Florian & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). A qualitative study on health practitioners' subjective theories regarding the media effects on depression-related outcomes. Suicidology Online, 8(1), 23-33. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL

Haim, Mario, Arendt, Florian, & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). Abyss or shelter? On the relevance of web search engines' search results when people Google for suicide. Health Communication, 32(2), 253-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2015.1113484 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Arendt, Florian (2017). Analyse temporaler Muster und Einzelfälle zur Suizidprävention mit Google Trends. In Claudia Lampert & Michael Grimm (Eds.), Gesundheitskommunikation als transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld (pp. 109-118). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/97838452845290-109 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Reinemann, Carsten, Scherr, Sebastian, & Stanyer, James (2017). Cross-conceptual architecture of news. In Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser, & David Nicolas Hopmann (Eds.), Comparing political journalism (pp. 150-167). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622286-19 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Brunet, Antonia (2017). Differential influences of depression and personality traits on the use of Facebook. Social Media + Society, 3(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117698495 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Reinemann, Carsten, Stanyer, James, & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). Hard and soft news. In Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser, & David Nicolas Hopmann (Eds.), Comparing political journalism (pp. 131-149). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622286-18 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Müller, Philipp (2017). How perceived persuasive intent and reactance contribute to third-person perceptions: evidence from two experiments. Mass Communication and Society, 20(3), 315-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2016.1250911 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, F., Scherr, Sebastian, Till, B., Prinzeller, Y., Hines, K., & Niederkrotenthaler, T. (2017). Medienforschung zu Suizid – Auswege aufzeigen. Fortschritte der Neurologie, Psychiatrie, 85(11), 655. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-119849 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). Optimizing online suicide prevention: a search engine-based tailored approach. Health Communication, 32(11), 1403-1408. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1224451 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Müller, Philipp & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). Reducing the bias: how perspective taking affects first- and third-person perceptions of media influence. Communication Research Reports, 34(2), 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2017.1280453 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian, Scherr, Sebastian, Till, Benedikt, Prinzellner, Yvonne, Hines, Kevin, & Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas (2017). Suicide on TV: minimising the risk to vulnerable viewers [Editorial]. BMJ, 2017(358), j3876. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3876 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Arendt, Florian, & Schäfer, Markus (2017). Supporting reporting: on the positive effects of text- and video-based awareness material on responsible journalistic suicide news writing. Archives of Suicide Research, 21(4), 646-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2016.1222975 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Arendt, Florian & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). The impact of a highly publicized celebrity suicide on suicide-related online information seeking. Crisis, 38(3), 207-209. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000455 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Baugut, Philip & Scherr, Sebastian (2017). Who justifies questionable reporting practices? Answers from a representative survey of journalists in Germany. Global Media Journal - German Edition, 7(1). PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL

2016

Scherr, Sebastian (2016). Depression – Medien – Suizid: zur empirischen Relevanz von Depressionen und Medien für die Suizidalität. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11162-5 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Brunet, Antonia & Scherr, Sebastian (2016). Facebook-Nutzung in Abhängigkeit depressiver Tendenzen. SCM Studies in Communication and Media, 5(1), 76-101. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2016-1-76 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Reinemann, Carsten (2016). First do no harm: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the impact of individual suicidality on the use of online health forums and support groups. Computers in Human Behavior, 61, 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.009 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Bartsch, Anne, Mares, Marie-Louise, Scherr, Sebastian, Kloß, Andrea, Keppeler, Johanna, & Posthumus, Lone (2016). More than shoot-em-up and torture porn: reflective appropriation and meaning-making of violent media content. Journal of Communication, 66(5), 741-765. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12248 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Baugut, Philip (2016). The meaning of leaning: the impact of journalists' political leaning on active role perception and satisfaction with audiences and editorial policy. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 93(1), 142-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699015606678 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Leiner, Dominik J., Scherr, Sebastian, & Bartsch, Anne (2016). Using open-source tools to measure online selective exposure in naturalistic settings. Communication Methods and Measures, 10(4), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2016.1224825 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Haim, Mario, Arendt, Florian, & Scherr, Sebastian (2016). Zum Einfluss von Suchmaschinen-Algorithmen auf das Erscheinen von Hinweisen zur Telefonseelsorge bei erhöhter Suizidalität. In Anna-Linda Camerini, Ramona Ludolph, & Fabia Rothenfluh (Eds.), Gesundheitskommunikation im Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und Praxis (pp. 224-234). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845274256-225 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2015

Reithmann, Maximilian & Scherr, Sebastian (2015). Die Rolle und Relevanz von Meinungsführern im Innovations-Diffusionsprozess. In Sven Pagel (Ed.), Schnittstellen (in) der Medienökonomie (pp. 301-320). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845264868-301 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Reinemann, Carsten, & Jandura, Olaf (2015). Dynamic success on YouTube: a longitudinal analysis of click counts and contents of political candidate clips during the 2009 German national election. German Politics, 24(4), 491-506. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2015.1024237 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian (2015). Zum Zusammenhang von Gesundheitsforen im Internet und der Suizidalität der Nutzer. In Markus Schäfer, Oliver Quiring, Constanze Rossmann, Matthias R. Hastall, & Eva Baumann (Eds.), Gesundheitskommunikation im gesellschaftlichen Wandel (pp. 129-138). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845264677-129 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Steinleitner, A. (2015). Zwischen dem Werther- und Papageno-Effekt. Der Nervenarzt, 86(5), 557-565. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-015-4260-6 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2014

Fast, Victoria, Müller, Philipp, & Scherr, Sebastian (2014). Der kombinierte Einsatz von Daten und Fallbeispielen in den Medien: Wirkung und Glaubwürdigkeit. In Wiebke Loosen & Marco Dohle (Eds.), Journalismus und (sein) Publikum: Schnittstellen zwischen Journalismusforschung und Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung (pp. 317-334). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19821-7_17 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Reinemann, C. (2014). EPA-0404 – Correlation and causality between the use of online health forums and suicidality: evidence from a German representative survey and a large-scale online panel survey [Abstract]. European Psychiatry, 29(Suppl. 1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(14)77826-5 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian & Steinleitner, A. (2014). EPA-0502 - A systematic analysis of all studies that ambiguously prove copycat suicides after media coverage of suicide [Abstract]. European Psychiatry, 29(Suppl. 1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(14)77906-4 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian (2014). Gesundheit in den Medien und die Bedeutung von Medieninhalten für die Gesundheit. In Klaus Hurrelmann & Eva Baumann (Eds.), Handbuch Gesundheitskommunikation (pp. 239-252). Bern: Huber. BibTeX | RIS

Engesser, Sven, Esser, Frank, Reinemann, Carsten, Scherr, Sebastian, Matthes, Jörg, & Wonneberger, Anke (2014). Negativität in der Politikberichterstattung: Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz im Vergleich. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 62(4), 588-605. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634x-2014-4-588 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2013

Baugut, Philip & Scherr, Sebastian (2013). Der Einfluss politischer Einstellungen auf Rollenverständnis und Arbeitszufriedenheit von Journalisten. Studies in Communication | Media, 2(4), 437-468. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2013-4-437 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Müller, Philipp, Scherr, Sebastian, & Fast, Victoria (2013). Der Einfluss wahrgenommener Medienwirkungen auf die Verarbeitung von Fallbeispielen. In Andreas Fahr, Olaf Jandura, & Hans-Bernd Brosius (Eds.), Theorieanpassungen in der digitalen Medienwelt (pp. 141-158). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845242682-141 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Scherr, Sebastian, Müller, Philipp, & Fast, Victoria (2013). Do third-person perceptions amplify exemplification effects?. International Journal of Communication, 7, 1603-1621. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL

Scherr, Sebastian (2013). Medien und Suizide: Überblick über die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Forschung zum Werther-Effekt. Suizidprophylaxe, 40(3), 96-107. BibTeX | RIS

Scherr, Sebastian, Müller, Philipp, & Fast, Victoria (2013). Single comments or average ratings: which elements of RateMyProfessors.com™ shape university students' judgments and course choice intentions?. Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 25(2), 131-141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-013-9164-z BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2012

Reinemann, Carsten, Stanyer, James, Scherr, Sebastian, & Legnante, Guido (2012). Hard and soft news: a review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings. Journalism, 13(2), 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884911427803 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Hörmann, Patrick & Scherr, Sebastian (2012). Investor Relations und Corporate Governance: eine kapitalmarktorientierte Analyse unter Berücksichtigung medialer Wirkungszusammenhänge. In Castulus Kolo, Thomas Döbler, & Lars Rademacher (Eds.), Wertschöpfung durch Medien im Wandel (pp. 303-321). Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845236940-303 BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Reinemann, Carsten & Scherr, Sebastian (2012). Was ist 'hard', was ist 'soft'? Eine Analyse eines der erfolgreichsten Konzepte der Journalismusforschung. In Nina Springer, Wolfgang Eichhorn, Johannes Raabe, & Hannes Haas (Eds.), Medien und Journalismus im 21. Jahrhundert: Herausforderungen für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Journalistenausbildung und Medienpraxis (pp. 489-506). Konstanz: UVK-Verlagsgesellschaft. PDF | BibTeX | RIS

2011

Scherr, Sebastian & Reinemann, Carsten (2011). Belief in a Werther effect: third-person effects in the perceptions of suicide risk for others and the moderating role of depression. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 41(6), 624-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278x.2011.00059.x BibTeX | RIS | DOI

Reinemann, Carsten & Scherr, Sebastian (2011). Der Werther-Defekt Plädoyer für einen neuen Blick auf den Zusammenhang von suizidalem Verhalten und Medien. Publizistik, 56(1), 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-010-0109-y BibTeX | RIS | DOI

2008

Götz, Maya, Hofmann, Ole, Dobler, Stefan, Scherr, Sebastian, Bulla, Christine, & Schreiner, Matthias (2008). Children's television worldwide: gender representation in Slovenia. International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI). BibTeX | RIS | URL

Götz, Maya, Hofmann, Ole, Brosius, Hans-Bernd, Carter, Cynthia, Chan, Kara, Donald, St. H., Fisherkeller, J., Frenette, M., Kolbjørnsen, T., Lemish, D., Lustyik, K., McMilli, D. C., Walma van der Mole, J. H., Pecora, N., Prinsloo, J., Pestaj, M., Ramos Rivero, P., Mereilles Reis, A.-H., Saeys, F., Scherr, Sebastian, & Zhang, H. (2008). Gender in children's television worldwide: results from a media analysis in 24 countries. Televizion, (21), 4-9. BibTeX | RIS | URL