🤔People report themselves as less open, extraverted, & neurotic on social media than offline. 🎭But they see typical person as *more* open, extraverted, & neurotic on social media than offline. Link to my paper in-press at European Journal of Personality: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We compared >700 participants’ perceptions with nationally representative Pew reports regarding 8 social media platforms. 🤔Platform frequency was positively linked to overestimating others' use 🚫People were generally inaccurate Paper out in Tech, Mind, & Behavior: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

📢 New research with @stephtorrespantoja.bsky.social , Julian Unkel, Lisa Rhee, @nibasaleem.bsky.social, and @joebayer.bsky.social What counts as “social media”? We find major disagreement across platforms and age groups, with implications for how people perceive its effects and role in society.

☎️ Calling student and early career scholars in @icamobile.bsky.social! Please consider applying to our dissertation award (by *31 March) + emerging scholar grant (by 4 May) ✍️ Details below! www.icamobile.org/topdissertat... www.icamobile.org/emergingscho...

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Really thought-provoking piece from Jana Dombrowski and @sabinetrepte.bsky.social! ⏳ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Felt Time Scale (FTS): Measuring how people experience screen time

Our field has been questioning whether self-reported media use actually captures the time spent using media, resulting in a shift from subjective to objective measurements. We advocate for a new pa...

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The SPECIEs Lab (Psychology department - UArizona) is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join the team (please share)! Start date: Summer-Fall 2026 Review: until filled Duration: 3-years Materials: 1-2 page cover letter, CV, 2-3 reference contacts Send materials to: dguevarabeltran@arizona.edu

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

💡Pub alert 💡 Why do users stop a media activity? Today I presented "101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement" at #CHIGreece2025 🏖️ The full paper - the 3rd of my PhD thesis - is now available #openaccess at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Summary below ⬇️

Great position paper on challenges (and possible solutions) on theorizing in media psychology by @adrianmeier.bsky.social and @dpossler.bsky.social in the first panel of #mediapsych25 #MePsy25

What are social media? Seems obvious, right? #TikTok? Definitely. #LinkedIn? Sure. #Facebook? Yes. #YouTube? Well… maybe less clear? In our @everydaymedialab.bsky.social project(lead @larawolfers.bsky.social) we suggest a framework for researchers #transparency academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

What do you mean by “social media”? Introducing the Reporting Items for Social Media Research (RISoMeR)

Abstract. Scholars from various disciplines study social media. However, neither researchers nor users have a unified understanding of social media. Even m

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New Preprint: "A Simple Future For Media Effects" @lennertcoenen.bsky.social, @yesuncomm.bsky.social, & I critically discuss our field's current emphasis on complexity. Instead, we argue to value description, prioritize regularities, formalize models, and unify theories. osf.io/preprints/os...

People often overestimate how many others share their views—a phenomenon known as the false consensus effect. In a new article in @ispp-pops.bsky.social, @clandwehr.bsky.social, Philipp Harms and I show that this tendency is associated with stronger populist attitudes: doi.org/10.1111/pops....

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I found an asymmetry in how people perceive themselves vs others on social media. The findings suggest that misperceptions derived from social media may extend beyond morality/politics toward how we view persons. Presenting data blitz @ Authenticity Precon @spspnews.bsky.social #socialpsych #spsp

Bad weather causes people to use social media more. Evidence in new psych science paper by @keltonminor.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social Nick Obradovich, including evidence within individuals overtime. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Are age restrictions really the best we can do? Or are there better ways to improve the impact of social media on youth well-being? Join us in finding out! I’m seeking a PhD student to support the collaborative PROMISE project 🇪🇺 More info: www.commsci.rw.fau.eu/team/job-pos... Thanks for sharing!

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Happy to share that our project "PROMISE: Promoting Well-Being in Preteens, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Toward Improved Social Media Policies", t/w Veronika Kalmus, @adrianmeier.bsky.social, @orbenamy.bsky.social & Charo Sadaba was funded by Norface CHANSE! 🧵 (1/5)

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇