Behind the Scenes of Cyberpsychology: Decisions & Review Statistics for 2025 📊 Every year, we publish the numbers about how many submissions we received, our acceptance rates, how long the review process took, or how many reviewers we contacted. Check out the full stats: muni.cz/go/332fd3

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In summer 2025, we also started to track the number of submissions that are rejected due to problems with hallucinated references, pointing to generative AI misuse. In 2025, this was 9% of submissions. This trend seems to be similar in 2026, where it was (so far) 7% of submissions.

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Summer issue is now live ☀️ Enjoy the read of 12 articles on topics like online incivility, online victimization among minority youth, diversity in avatar self-representation digital piracy, and much more. 🔓 The full issue is free to read via #OpenAccess: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2...

⏰ Friendly Reminder: Cyberpsychology summer break is just around the corner! Next week is the final chance to submit your work before we close for the summer (on June 16).

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📣 To maintain our standards of quality and ensure a sustainable workload for our editors, we are introducing a summer break for new submissions from June 16 to August 31. Read more about the summer break on our website: cyberpsychology.eu/announcement...

Join us in welcoming Kevin Koban @kevinkoban.bsky.social as our new Associate Editor!✨ Based at @univie.ac.at with @adme-uvienna.bsky.social, he focuses on beneficial and harmful engagements with interactive digital media, including social media, social machines, and video games. Welcome, Kevin!🤗

📣 To maintain our standards of quality and ensure a sustainable workload for our editors, we are introducing a summer break for new submissions from June 16 to August 31. Read more about the summer break on our website: cyberpsychology.eu/announcement...

🌷 Our spring issue is now live! It brings 8 new articles covering topics such as AI aversion, online sexual health knowledge, the complexities of online dating, videoconference fatigue, and more. 🔓 Full issue is #OpenAccess: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... Enjoy the read! ☀️

We are thrilled to welcome Douglas A. Parry as our new Associate Editor! Assistant Prof at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he studies digital media's impact on attention, cognition & well-being using innovative methods (e.g., smartphone tracking, ML). Welcome aboard, Doug! 🎉 @dougaparry.bsky.social

🌱 The first issue of the year is out, launching Volume 20! It brings 10 articles on topics like adolescent mobile habits, cyberbullying bystanders, social norms in teens’ online interactions, trust & privacy in generative AI, and more. 🔓 #OpenAccess: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... Enjoy! ⭐

Our editors, Lenka Dědková and Joris Van Ouytsel, along with Brad Bushman (Editor of Psychology of Violence), participated in a lively Q&A session at the Workshop on Aggression 2025 in Brno. Thank you to all participants for the thoughtful questions.💡

☃️ The final issue of the year is here! Vol. 19, No. 5 has just been published with 10 articles about influencer mental-health, sleep and smartphone use, algorithm vs. human decision-making, and many more. 🔓📖 The full issue is #OpenAccess here: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... Enjoy reading!🎀

We’re thrilled to welcome Emmelyn Croes as our new Associate Editor! 🎉 Assistant Professor at @tilburg-university.bsky.social, she studies how people connect across online and offline media—from video calls to chatbots—and how social influencers shape well-being and behavior. Welcome, Emmelyn!✨

🍂 Fall issue is out now! 🍂 Vol. 19, No. 4 offers 11 articles about smartphones’ mere presence in schools, social media and life satisfaction, meaning in life, or pro/pro-antisocial behaviors, and much more. See 🧵👇 📖 Read here: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... 🔓 Everything #OpenAccess Enjoy!✨

Decisions and Reviews Statistics for 2024 📊 Curious about how many submissions we received, our acceptance rates, how long the review process took, or how many reviewers we contacted? 🤔 Read all the details here: cyberpsychology.eu/announcement... Or check out the highlights below 🧵

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🌞 New issue is here! 🌞 Vol. 19, No. 3 features 2 new validated measures, 3 longitudinal studies on social media use, and much more - see 🧵👇 📚 Cool off with a smart summer read: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... All #OpenAccess 🔓 Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped bring this issue to life! 🙌

📢 Doing research on aggression, media, or tech? Submit your abstract to the 29th Workshop on Aggression! 🎤 Keynotes: Brad Bushman, Jörg Matthes & Lenka Kollerová 📅 Submit by July 6 📍 Brno, Czech Republic 🔗 Details & CFP: irtis.muni.cz/woa #WoA2025 #CFP #Aggression #MediaResearch

📢 New Pub 📢 Originating from a classroom project & now @cyberpsy.bsky.social, Melanie Saumer, Ariadne Neureiter, Édua M. Varga, Veronika Gataric, Chelsea Y. Liu, & Jörg Matthes examine the persuasiveness of health content presented by human vs 2 kinds of CGI influencers. 👉🏼 doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

🌱 The spring issue is here! 🌱 Vol. 19, No. 2 features 5 articles about preventing sexual harassment using VR, influencers and health behaviors or body image, livestream shopping, and more (contents 👇 ). 📚 Read the issue here: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2... Everything #OpenAccess 🔓 Enjoy! ✨

Hello Bluesky!👋 Our First Issue of the Year is now published🌟 Kicking off the year with 5 articles: role of supportive parenting in digital citizenship, counter-speech against online hate, internet gaming disorder, and more. Read all #OpenAccess articles here: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2...