Karin M. Fikkers (MA, 2010) is a Ph.D. student in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR, at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Business Communication at the Radboud University Nijmegen, after which she completed (cum laude) the Research Master 'Language and Communication' at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Tilburg.

Since January 2011, she works as a Ph.D. student within the Youth and Media group of ASCoR: the Center for research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (CCAM). Karin studies the effects of media violence on adolescents’ aggression within the larger project ‘The Entertainization of Childhood’, supervised by professor Patti Valkenburg. Specifically, her research focuses on identifying which adolescents become more aggressive as a result of consuming violent media, rather than assuming that such effects are the same for all adolescents. In order to achieve this, she examines how dispositional factors (such as sensation seeking, trait aggression) and social factors (parental and peer influences) affect the relationship between violent media exposure and aggressive behavior.

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Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Vossen, H.G.M., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2013, June 19). How Family Conflict Moderates the Relationship between Media Violence and Adolescents' Aggression. Paper presented at the 63^rd annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), London, England.  

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Weeda, W.D., Vossen, H.G.M., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2013, June 15). Double dose: The joint effect of media violence and family conflict on adolescents’ aggression. Paper presented at the 3^rd George Gerbner Conference, Budapest, Hungary.

Fikkers, K.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Vossen, H.G.M., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2013, February). Double dose: How violent media exposure and family conflict interact to predict adolescents' aggression. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Fikkers, K. M., Valkenburg, P. M., & Vossen, H. G. M. (2012, May). Validity of Adolescents’ Direct Estimates of Their Exposure to Media Violence in Three Types of Media. Poster presented at the 62^nd annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix, AZ.

Fikkers, K. M., Valkenburg, P. M., & Vossen, H. G. M. (2012, February). Short and Sweet. The Validity of Adolescents’ Direct Estimates of Their Exposure to Media Violence in Three Types of Media. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Leuven, Belgium.

Hoeken, H., & Fikkers, K. M. (2011, June). Scrutinizing Fictional Characters’ Arguments. Paper presented at the 61^st annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Boston, MA.

Fikkers, K. M., & Hoeken, H. (2011, January). Scrutinizing Fictional Characters’ Arguments: The Role of Cognitive Responses and Identification in Narrative Persuasion. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede, the Netherlands.

Fikkers, K. M., & Hoeken, H. (2010, June). Scrutinizing Fictional Characters’ Arguments: The Role of Cognitive Responses and Identification in Narrative Persuasion. Paper presented at the Conference for the Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft (IGEL), Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Hoeken, H. & Fikkers, K. M. (2009, April). Scrutinizing Fictional Characters’ Arguments: Do Stories Prohibit Central Processing? Paper presented at the Workshop Narrative Fact and Fiction: Patterns of narrative construction in media stories and differential effects, Vienna, Austria.

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