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View article: Toxic disinhibition makes a versatile rulebreaker in cyberspace: Mapping online deviance with exploratory graph analysis and structural equation modeling
Toxic disinhibition makes a versatile rulebreaker in cyberspace: Mapping online deviance with exploratory graph analysis and structural equation modeling Open
Deviant behaviors in online spaces are rising at an alarming rate, causing profound psychological and/or financial harm to victims. Previous research suggests that various manifestations of cyberdeviant actions tend to co-occur and may fal…
View article: In Search of Vivid Deliberation or Reinforcing Echo? A Three-Study Project on the Psychological Basis of Individuals’ Selective Exposure and Selective Avoidance Tendencies in Political Conversations with ChatGPT
In Search of Vivid Deliberation or Reinforcing Echo? A Three-Study Project on the Psychological Basis of Individuals’ Selective Exposure and Selective Avoidance Tendencies in Political Conversations with ChatGPT Open
The increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has the potential to shift public discourse to private human-AI interactions, with potentially tremendous consequences: Biases and optimization of LLMs, combined with users’ biases like se…
View article: Toward an Integrated Psychological Model of Violent Extremism
Toward an Integrated Psychological Model of Violent Extremism Open
The global threat of violent extremism (VE) has intensified in recent years, evidenced by a significant increase in violent incidents. Despite numerous theoretical and empirical explanations across disciplines, a lack of cross-fertilisatio…
View article: Analyzing the Interest in Digital Wellbeing Services: Are People More Willing to Pay for Them on Social Network Sites or Messaging Platforms? (Preprint)
Analyzing the Interest in Digital Wellbeing Services: Are People More Willing to Pay for Them on Social Network Sites or Messaging Platforms? (Preprint) Open
UNSTRUCTURED The prevalence of social network sites (SNS) and messaging platforms (MSG) has transformed the way people communicate, interact, and share knowledge, leading to economic and social transformations. However, concerns about dig…
View article: Uncovering latent profiles of political news consumers and their associations with political views and their extremity
Uncovering latent profiles of political news consumers and their associations with political views and their extremity Open
In today's high-choice media environment, the relations between news consumption and (extreme) political views receive extensive attention. While social media and news aggregators are often blamed for political polarization, theories from …
View article: Who thinks the media is hostile?! An examination of individual differences predicting the hostile media effect concerning news media coverage of individuals with a migratory background in Germany
Who thinks the media is hostile?! An examination of individual differences predicting the hostile media effect concerning news media coverage of individuals with a migratory background in Germany Open
The present study explores individual differences related to the perception of the media coverage of immigrants as biased. Building on previous research, relations with the extremity in preexisting attitudes toward immigrants and in affect…
View article: Salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase as stress markers to evaluate an individualized music intervention for people with dementia: feasibility and pilot analyses
Salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase as stress markers to evaluate an individualized music intervention for people with dementia: feasibility and pilot analyses Open
Objectives We investigated salivary biomarkers of stress, more specifically, cortisol and alpha-amylase, to evaluate effects of individualized music listening (IML) in people with dementia. Method Participants were N = 64 nursing home resi…
View article: Prompt-based Personality Profiling: Reinforcement Learning for Relevance Filtering
Prompt-based Personality Profiling: Reinforcement Learning for Relevance Filtering Open
Author profiling is the task of inferring characteristics about individuals by analyzing content they share. Supervised machine learning still dominates automatic systems that perform this task, despite the popularity of prompting large la…
View article: Relations between different components of group identification and types of social media political participation in the context of the Fridays for Future movement
Relations between different components of group identification and types of social media political participation in the context of the Fridays for Future movement Open
Social media revolutionized political participation possibilities, and movements like Fridays for Future (FFF) rely on them. Understanding the factors driving the novel online modes of political participation is crucial. Consequently, this…
View article: Willingness to pay for digital wellbeing features on social network sites: a study with Arab and European samples
Willingness to pay for digital wellbeing features on social network sites: a study with Arab and European samples Open
In recent years, concerns over the potential negative impacts of social network sites (SNS) on users’ digital wellbeing are on the rise. These concerns have sparked a growing demand for SNS to introduce changes to their business model and …
View article: Analyzing the Interest in Digital Wellbeing Services: Are People More Willing to Pay for Them on Social Network Sites or Messaging Platforms?
Analyzing the Interest in Digital Wellbeing Services: Are People More Willing to Pay for Them on Social Network Sites or Messaging Platforms? Open
The prevalence of social network sites (SNS) and messaging platforms (MSG) has transformed the way people communicate, interact, and share information. However, concerns about digital wellbeing have arisen due to issues such as disclosure …
View article: Patterns of neural activity in response to threatening faces are predictive of autistic traits: modulatory effects of oxytocin receptor genotype
Patterns of neural activity in response to threatening faces are predictive of autistic traits: modulatory effects of oxytocin receptor genotype Open
Autistic individuals generally demonstrate impaired emotion recognition but it is unclear whether effects are emotion-specific or influenced by oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genotype. Here we implemented a dimensional approach using an implicit…
View article: To follow or not to follow - Estimating political opinion from Twitter data using a network-based machine learning approach
To follow or not to follow - Estimating political opinion from Twitter data using a network-based machine learning approach Open
Studying political opinions of citizens stands as a fundamental pursuit for both policymakers and researchers. While traditional surveys remain the primary method to investigate individual political opinions, the advent of social media dat…
View article: Transdisciplinary knowledge integration PART II: Experiences of five transdisciplinary processes on digital data use in Germany
Transdisciplinary knowledge integration PART II: Experiences of five transdisciplinary processes on digital data use in Germany Open
Transdisciplinary problems are complex, ill-defined, societal real-world problems with high ambiguity that are contested and require multiple trade-offs. Part I of this paper showed that transdisciplinary processes include seven types of k…
View article: Latent profiles of problematic smartphone use severity are associated with social and generalized anxiety, and fear of missing out, among Chinese high school students
Latent profiles of problematic smartphone use severity are associated with social and generalized anxiety, and fear of missing out, among Chinese high school students Open
We explored problematic smartphone use (PSU) using latent profile analysis (LPA) and relationships with anxiety variables, including severity of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and Fear of Missing Out (Fo…
View article: The Revenue Model of Mainstream Social Media: Advancing Discussions on Social Media Based on a European Perspective Derived from Interviews with Scientific and Practical Experts
The Revenue Model of Mainstream Social Media: Advancing Discussions on Social Media Based on a European Perspective Derived from Interviews with Scientific and Practical Experts Open
Potential benefits and risks related to mainstream social media platforms and their revenue model are vigorously debated. However, a comprehensive framework of performance criteria to evaluate social media platforms and suggestions for tra…
View article: Patterns of neural activity in response to threatening faces are predictive of autistic traits: modulatory effects of oxytocin receptor genotype
Patterns of neural activity in response to threatening faces are predictive of autistic traits: modulatory effects of oxytocin receptor genotype Open
Autistic individuals generally demonstrate impaired emotion recognition but it is unclear whether effects are emotion-specific or influenced by oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genotype. Here we implemented a dimensional approach using an implicit…
View article: Unveiling Complexity: Latent Profiles of Political News Consumption across Media Types and their Relations to Political Views and their Extremity
Unveiling Complexity: Latent Profiles of Political News Consumption across Media Types and their Relations to Political Views and their Extremity Open
This study investigated the conjoint interplay between various aspects of news consumption across media types and their relations to political views and their extremity.Study 1 involved N = 714/721 (samples 1/2) participants completing an …
View article: A central serotonin regulating gene polymorphism (TPH2) determines vulnerability to acute tryptophan depletion-induced anxiety and ventromedial prefrontal threat reactivity
A central serotonin regulating gene polymorphism (TPH2) determines vulnerability to acute tryptophan depletion-induced anxiety and ventromedial prefrontal threat reactivity Open
Serotonin (5-HT) has long been implicated in adaptive emotion regulation as well as the development and treatment of emotional dysregulations in mental disorders. Accumulating evidence suggests that a genetic vulnerability may render some …
View article: Linking primary emotional traits to ideological attitudes and personal value types
Linking primary emotional traits to ideological attitudes and personal value types Open
The present study aimed at investigating associations of both ideological attitudes and personal value types with the personality traits derived from the Affective Neuroscience Theory (ANT). For that, data of N = 626 (n = 403 men, n = 220 …