This year's Research Division paper winners present their research.
Vice Chair & Paper Competition Chair: Glenn Cummins, Texas Tech University
Open Paper Competition
1st Place: Kim Bissell, University of Alabama; Scott Parrott, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Dora the Explorer or Hannah Montana?: The Role of Exposure to Animated and Live-Action Entertainment Television and Children’s Implicit and Explicit Weight Bias
2nd Place: Will Kinnally, University of Central Florida; Yan Shan, University of Georgia; Megan Hofma, Rollins College; Courtney Hardage, University of Central Florida; Xing Tong, University of Central Florida; Tim Brown, University of Central Florida; Further Investigation of Connections between Reality TV Viewing and Perceptions of the Social Reality of Cosmetic Surgery
3rd Place: Phillip Madison, Louisiana State University; Lance Porter, Louisiana State University; It’s All in Your Head: The Evolution of Television, Parasociability and Imagined Interactions
4th Place: Charles Meadows, University of Alabama; Cui Zhang, University of Alabama; Shuhua Zhou, University of Alabama; Effects of Proximity on the Cognitive Processing of Environmental News
