Mobile phones, television, internet services, games, and social media offer diverse and
numerous opportunities for coping with stress in everyday life. Different disciplines have …

There is an increasingly robust literature of recent research findings that support the
developmental importance of music in adolescence. However, this intriguing literature is not …

Next to physical health problems and economic damage, the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic and associated lockdown measures taken by governments of many …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so
dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen …

Parasocial relationships have traditionally been conceptualized as one-sided, non-
reciprocal relationships with media figures. However, the proliferation of online media …

Ein Lehr-und Handbuch, das den Gegenstandsbereich der Publizistik-und
Kommunikationswissenschaft umreißt und in ihre Grundbegriffe, nämlich Kommunikation …

The social surrogacy hypothesis holds that people resort to temporary substitutes, so-called
social surrogates, if direct social interaction is not possible. In this exploratory study, we …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is influencing our lives in an
enormous and unprecedented way. Here, we explore COVID-19-lockdown's consequences …

Video-game users represent 40% of the French population and adolescents are the primary
users. Yet excessive playing of video games has become a problem in modern society and …