The current generation of adolescents grows up in a media-saturated world. However, it is
unclear how media influences the maturational trajectories of brain regions involved in …

Attention about the risks of online social networks (SNs) has been called upon reports
describing their use to express emotional distress and suicidal ideation or plans. On the …

How can social network sites (SNS) foster relationships when most status updates on SNS
are mainly entertaining and not very intimate? This finding cannot be explained by classical …

From past research it is well known that social exclusion has detrimental consequences for
mental health. To deal with these adverse effects, socially excluded individuals frequently …

Instructional manipulation checks (IMCs) have become popular tools for identifying
inattentive participants in online studies. IMCs function by attempting to trick inattentive …

Three studies examined the effects of receiving fewer signs of positive feedback than others
on social media. In Study 1, adolescents (N= 613, Mage= 14.3 years) who were randomly …

Social contact is an important ingredient of a happy and satisfying life. But is more social
contact necessarily better? Although it is well-established that increasing the quantity of …

Humans are highly sensitive to ostracism experiences and thus, even very short
occurrences of being excluded and ignored can threaten fundamental needs and lower …

In times of being always online and connected, cyberostracism—the feeling of being ignored
or excluded over the Internet—is a serious threat to fundamental human needs: belonging …

Four studies (total valid N= 643) examined whether ostracism increases people's political
conspiracy beliefs through heightened vulnerability and whether self-affirmation intervention …