Publications

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PEER- REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS

 

  1. Peña, J. & Hernandez, J. F. (2019). Game perspective-taking effects on willingness to help immigrants: A replication study with a Spanish sample. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1461444819874472

 

  1. Pan, W., & Peña, J. (2019). Looking down on others to feel good about the self: The exposure effects of online model pictures on men’s self-esteem. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1584780

 

  1. Chen, M., & Peña, J. (2019). The effects of physical poses on risk-taking behavior and signature size after playing with a motion-controlled video game. International Journal of Health & Media Research.

 

  1. Peña, J., Hernandez, J. F., Khan, S., & Cano, A. P. (2018). Game perspective-taking effects on players’ behavioral intention, attitudes, subjective norms, and self-efficacy to help immigrants: The case of “Papers, Please.” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

 

  1. Peña, J., Khan, S., Burrows, C., & Blanton, H. (2018). How persuasive are health advertisements in first-person shooter games? Exploring knowledge-activation and thought-disruption mechanisms. Communication Research Reports.

 

  1. Khan, S., & Peña, J. (2017). Playing to beat the blues: Linguistic agency and message causality effects on use of mental health games application. Computers in Human Behavior, 71, 436-443. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.024

 

  1. Pan, W., & Peña, J. (2017). The exposure effects of online model pictures and weight-related persuasive messages on women’s attitudes toward weight-loss planned behaviors. Journal of Health Communication. 22, 858-865, https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2017.1367339

 

  1. Peña, J., Ghaznavi, J., Brody, N., Prada, R., Martinho, C., Santos, P. A., Damas, H., & Dimas, J. (2017). Effects of human vs. computer-controlled characters and social identity cues on enjoyment. Journal of Media Psychology, 0(0), 1-13. doi:10.1027/1864-1105/a000218

 

  1. Peña, J., & Chen, M. (2017). With great power comes great responsibility: Superhero primes and expansive poses influence prosocial behavior after a motion-controlled game task. Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 378-385.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Chen, M. (2017). Playing with power: Power poses affect enjoyment, presence, controller responsiveness, and arousal when playing natural motion-controlled video games. Computers in Human Behavior, 71, 428-435.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Pan, W. (2016). Words of advice: Exposure to website model pictures and online persuasive messages affects the linguistic content and style of women’s weight-related social support messages. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 208-217.

 

  1. Peña, J., Khan, S., & Alexopoulos, C. (2016). I am what I see: How avatar weight affects physical activity among male gamers. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21, 195-209.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Brody, N. (2016). Increasing cognitive readiness through computer and videogame-based training. Communication Research, 43, 571-592.

 

  1. Brody, N., & Peña, J. (2015). Equity, relational maintenance, and linguistic features of text messaging. Computers in Human Behavior, 49, 499-506.

 

  1. Yoo, S.-C., Peña, J., & Drumwright, M. (2015). Virtual shopping and unconscious persuasion: The priming effects of avatar age and consumers’ age discrimination on purchasing and prosocial behaviors. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 62-71.

 

  1. Yilmaz, G., & Peña, J. (2015). How do interpersonal behaviors and social categories affect language use? The case of virtual teams. Communication Quarterly, 63, 427-443.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Kim, E. (2014). The influence of self and opponent avatar weight on physical activity among female gamers, Computers in Human Behavior, 41, 262-267.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Yoo, S.-C. (2014). Under pressure: Avatar appearance and cognitive load effects on persuasion, trust, bargaining, and interpersonal distance in a virtual store. PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 23, 18-32.

 

  1. Yilmaz, G., & Peña, J. (2014). The influence of social categories and interpersonal behaviors on future intentions and attitudes to form subgroups in virtual teams. Communication Research, 41, 333-352.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Brody, N. (2014). Intentions to hide and unfriend Facebook connections based on perceptions of sender attractiveness and status updates. Computers in Human Behavior, 31, 143-150.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Blackburn, K. (2013). The priming effects of virtual environments on interpersonal perceptions and behaviors. Journal of Communication, 63, 703-720.

 

  1. Baptista, M., Damas, H., Dimas, J., Raimundo, G., Prada, R., Martinho, C., Santos, P., & Peña, J. (2013). A serious game based on a public goods experiment. International IEEE Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 774-781.

 

  1. Peña, J., McGlone, M., & Sanchez, J. (2012). The automatic effects of avatar appearance and role labels in a spontaneous language use task. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 5, 1-16, http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6280

 

  1. Peña, J. (2011). Integrating the influence of perceiving and operating avatars under the automaticity model of priming effects. Communication Theory, 21, 150-168.

 

  1. Prada, R., Raimundo, G., Dimas, J., Martinho, C., Peña, J., Baptista, J., Santos, P. A., & Ribeiro, L. L. (2011). The role of social identity, rationality, and anticipation in believable agents. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent systems (AAMAS ‘12), 3, 1175-1176.

 

  1. Yoo, S.-C., & Peña, J. (2011). Does violence in video games impair in-game advertisement effectiveness? The impact of game context on brand recall, brand attitude, and purchase intention. CyberPsychology, Behavior, & Social Networking, 14, 439-446.

 

  1. Lin, J.-S., & Peña, J. (2011). Are you following me? A content analysis of TV networks’ brand communication on Twitter. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 12, 1, http://jiad.org/article150

 

  1. McNamee, L., Peterson, B., & Peña, J. (2010). Teaching, invoking, indicting, and advocating: Understanding the communication of hate groups’ websites. Communication Monographs, 77, 288-311.

 

  1. Merola, N. A., & Peña, J. (2010). The effects of avatar appearance in virtual worlds. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 2, 5, https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/843

 

  1. Jin, B., & Peña, J. (2010). Mobile communication in romantic relationships: Mobile phone use, relational uncertainty, love, commitment, and attachment styles. Communication Reports, 23, 39-51.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Hancock, J. T., & Merola, N. A. (2009). The priming effects of avatars in virtual settings. Communication Research, 36, 838-856.

 

  1. Peña, J., Walther, J. B., & Hancock, J. T. (2007). Effects of geographic distribution on dominance perceptions in computer-mediated groups. Communication Research, 34, 313-331.

 

  1. Peña, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). An analysis of socioemotional and task-oriented communication in an online multiplayer video game. Communication Research, 33, 92-109.

 

  1. Nastri J. A., Peña, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). The construction of away messages in instant messenger: A speech act analysis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11, 1025-1045.

 

  1. Moyano, E., Peña, J., & Rubinstein, C. (2004). Primary prevention of the traffic accidents in Chile: Driver training and road safety campaigns. Revista Mexicana de Psicología, 20, 127-140. (In Spanish)

 

  1. Conejera, M., Donoso, D., Moyano, E., Peña, J., & Saavedra, F. (2003). Persuasive communication and attitude change toward road safety among pedestrians. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 35, 77-90. (In Spanish)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Peña, J., Li, B. J., & Ratan, R. (in press). Digital embodiment and improving health outcomes: Healthy avatars make for healthy people. In J. Kim & H. Song (Eds.), New technology for health-related cognitive and behavioral change. Elsevier.

  1. Khan, S., & Peña, J. (in press). Using persuasive messages to increase engagement with mental health video game apps. In J. Kim & H. Song (Eds.), New technology for health-related cognitive and behavioral change. Elsevier.

7. Peña, J. (2018). A communication model of social demands in video games. In N. Bowman (Ed.), Video games: A medium that demands our attention, (pp. 126-145). Routledge.

6. Falin, J. & Peña, J. (2017). Shape & size: The body electric. In J. Banks (Ed.), Avatar, assembled: The social and technical anatomy of digital bodies, (pp. 23-32). Peter Lang.

  1. Peña, J. (2016). Online gaming. In C. Berger & M. Roloff (Eds.), International encyclopedia of interpersonal communication. Wiley-Blackwell.

 

  1. Walther, J. B., Van Der Heide, B., Ramirez, A. Jr., Burgoon, J. K., & Peña, J. (2015). Interpersonal and hyperpersonal aspects of computer-mediated communication. In S. S. Sundar (Ed.), The handbook of psychology and communication technology (pp. 3-22). West Sussex, England: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

  1. Brody, N., & Peña, J. (2012). Face threatening messages and attraction in social networking sites: Reconciling strategic self- presentation with negative online perceptions. In C. Cunningham (Ed.), Social networking and impression-management: Self-presentation in the digital age (pp. 205-226). Rowan: Lexington.

 

  1. Shapiro, M. A., & Peña, J. (2009). Generalizability and validity in video game research. In U. Ritterfeld, M. J. Cody, & P. Vorderer (Eds.), Serious games: Mechanisms and effects (pp. 389-403). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

  1. Shapiro, M. A., Peña, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). Realism, imagination, and narrative video games. In P. Vorderer & J. Bryant (Eds.), Playing computer games: Motives, responses, and consequences (pp. 275-289). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

VICTR LAB

The Virtual Interaction & Communication Technology (VICTR) lab at UC Davis studies the uses and effects of interactive technologies. Jorge Peña is the lab director. We are interested in understanding how the design features of video games and virtual environments affect online and offline experiences, and how virtual experiences (e.g., games, simulations) can be leveraged to improve our lives. We are also interested in how people construct messages to coordinate action and meaning in personal relationships and computer-mediated interactions.