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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣ 5️⃣ Adolescents’ social media use and conspiracy beliefs: The moderating role of rational and experiential thinking ✍️Magdalena Iwanowska, Stan Rosana, Anna Maria Zawadzka cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣ 4️⃣ Should I speak or should I go? Relationship closeness and descriptive norms on reactions to hate memes in private chat groups ✍️Christina Josupeit cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣ 3️⃣ Associations between prior parental mediation and digital wellbeing among young adults: Incorporating both variable- and person-centered approaches ✍️Wei Ren, Suchuan Ma, Kaili Wang cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣2️⃣Comparative role of self-factors: A gender-based network analysis of problematic social media use and physical health ✍️Jakub Helvich, Lukas Novak, Bibiana Jozefiakova, Eva Milkova, Peter Tavel cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣1️⃣Bridging the digital divide: How smartphones are associated with physical, psychological, and social well-being in marginalized groups ✍️ @ilenia-gasparini00.bsky.social, @marc0marinucci.bsky.social, @lucapancani.bsky.social Paolo Riva cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣0️⃣Online connectedness: The meaning of online social interactions for young adults with mild intellectual disabilities ✍️Hannah van Alem, Noud Frielink, Wieneke Penninga, Petri Embregts cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

9️⃣When fast becomes too fast: Working memory constraints in accelerated video playback ✍️Hyenyeong Chung, Yunju Nam, Upyong Hong cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

8️⃣No evidence of protection: Imaginary bulletproof glass fails to reduce psychological harm in content moderation ✍️Chloe McDonough, Sarah Lewitzka, Victoria Bridgland, Ella Moeck, Reginald Nixon, Carolyn Semmler, Melanie Takarangi cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

7️⃣Safer sexting: Who cares and how? ✍️Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, Jorg Matthes cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

6️⃣ Balancing the scales of privacy: Perceptions of privacy issues and digital risk among domestic internet of things users ✍️Cristina Paupini, Dominique Kost, Terje Gjøsæter cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

5️⃣Disentangling the paradox of the privacy paradox on social media: The role of privacy dimensions, perceived benefits, privacy self-efficacy, and privacy cynicism ✍️ @laurentwang.bsky.social, @tobiasdienlin.com, Miriam Metzger cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

4️⃣Media-multitasking and attentional control: A theory-driven research agenda ✍️Elger Abrahamse, Douglas A. Parry, Daniel le Roux, Susanne Baumgartner cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

3️⃣Perceptions of AI-generated profile pictures: Effects on quality, attractiveness, and trustworthiness ✍️ @jacob-long.com, Jingyi Xiao, Shamira McCray, Ertan Ağaoğlu, Abdullah Alajmi, Chinwendu Akalonu, Yanzhen Xu cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

2️⃣Immerse & befriend: The role of synthetic relationship perception and narrative transportation in a mental health app ✍️Marisa Tschopp, Stefanie Klein, Christine Anderl, Henrik Sætra, Sonja Utz cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1️⃣AI-based writing assistants for emotional tone: Investigating users’ acceptance and recipients’ perceptions in online negotiations ✍️Josephine Hagedorn, Roman Klinger, Kai Sassenberg cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New Cyberpsychology issue is out now 🌟 Enjoy the read of 15 articles on topics like AI and synthetic relationships, digital privacy, content moderation, media multitasking, digital inclusion, and more. 🔓 The full issue is free to read via #OpenAccess: muni.cz/go/7153b2

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📢 After summer break, our submission system has officially reopened today! Furthermore, we are introducing updated submission requirements regarding ethical approval, open data & materials and preregistrations. Details on our website muni.cz/go/e652c6 We look forward to your new submissions! ☀️

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To keep workload sustainable and maintain quality, we’ve welcomed new editors, set a summer submission break, and are working on updates to our scope and submission guidelines. 🌟 Big thanks to all the reviewers, authors, editors and assistants who work with us to ensure a quality review process!

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🔵 On average, we invite 21 reviewers per article (less than last year). 🔵 The review process took on average 139 days. 🔵 Our acceptance rate has averaged around 9% over the past five years.

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🔵 We got 780 submissions - a 55% increase from 2024. 🔵 Desk reject rate increased to 87%. 🔵 We receive more submissions, but fewer of them are high quality enough to be sent to external reviews → suggesting a new trend not unique in our journal. 🔵 9% pointed to Gen AI misuse.

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1️⃣2️⃣ A new look at the relationship between the gamer and the game character: An exploratory study of internal dialogical activity ✍ Pawel Fortuna, Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl, Łukasz Kaczmarczyk, Andrzej Cudo doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1️⃣1️⃣ Digital piracy through the lens of moral intensity and risk perception: A cross-cultural perspective ✍ Mateja Kos Koklič, Monika Kukar-Kinney, Irena Vida doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1️⃣0️⃣ The associations of relatedness need frustration and socioeconomic status with youth perfectionistic self-presentation on social media: The mediating role of social comparison ✍ Shujian Wang, Xinze Liu, Xiangping Liu doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

9️⃣ Beautifully diverse? Self-representations and diversity preferences in avatar-mediated virtual environments ✍ Xiangting Bernice Lin, Lin Qiu, Chen Lou, Ruoxi Fan doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

8️⃣ Algorithm-mediated social learning and social appearance anxiety in China: Predictors, mediating mechanism, and contextual factors ✍ Guanxiong Huang, Mengru Sun, Yuanyi Mao doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

7️⃣ Subtle cues, major shifts: Eye-tracking insights on how fear and humor legitimize hostility on social media ✍ Ursula Kristin Schmid, Simon Greipl, Diana Rieger doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

6️⃣ Social network usage nature fosters youth sense of identity and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model analysis ✍ Wang On Li, Ching Man Fung, Tak Sang Jason Chow, Kai Ip Danny Leung, Yuet Wah Cheung doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

5️⃣ Intrinsic and extrinsic social comparisons in online and offline contexts: An ecological momentary assessment study of associations with wellbeing ✍ Marc S. Tibber, Chan Zhang, Minglei Wang doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

4️⃣ Framing adolescent sexting: How media discourses influence parents’ attitudes and practices towards sexting ✍ Elliana Lamprianidou, Koen Ponnet, Michel Walrave, Inès Kasmi, Stijn Van Petegem doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

3️⃣ A comparative study on online victimization perceptions (cyberbullying, dating violence, and sexual harassment) and psychological symptoms in sexual and gender minority youth ✍ Maite Azabal-Gallego, Alexander Trinidad, Verónica Marcos, Mercedes Novo, Laura Vozmediano doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

2️⃣ “What can I do as somebody who only knows her through the internet?”: An interview study on the role bystanders play when people make suicidal disclosures on social media ✍ Rhianna Brien, Bethany Cliffe, Lisa Marzano, Maria Woloshynowych, Jay-Marie Mackenzie doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1️⃣ Towards a typology of online users in response to incivility: A latent profile analysis across six countries ✍ Emily Ahrens, Vladimir Bojarskich, Tobias Rothmund doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

⏰ 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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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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!🤗

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

📣 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...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

8️⃣Problematic mobile media use as a family issue: A latent profile analysis in parent-child dyads ✍ @nelejanssens.bsky.social, Sarah Coyne, @kathbeullens.bsky.social doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

7️⃣Phubbing and relational evaluation among college students: A longitudinal study ✍ Ronghua Zhang, Xiaofeng Guo, Na Yang, Chenguang Du doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

6️⃣The dark triad and cyber aggression: Testing the longitudinal mediation of moral disengagement and toxic online disinhibition ✍ Cheng-Yen Wang, Yih-Lan Liu, Chia-Yun Chang doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

5️⃣The role of nonverbal communication cues in reducing videoconference fatigue: A comparison of 2D and virtual reality videoconference platforms ✍ Benjamin Li, Heng Zhang doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

4️⃣Knowledge benefits through work-related social media use: A preregistered measurement burst study ✍ Christine Anderl, Franziska Gaiser, @sonja-utz.de doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

3️⃣Selling yourself short: How sexualized online dating profiles affect viewers’ perceptions and relationship intentions ✍ Gurit Birnbaum, Kobi Zholtack, Harry T. Reis doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

2️⃣Social media as sources of sexual health knowledge: A compensatory or complementary form of education? ✍ German Neubaum, Jan-Sebastian Grund doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

1️⃣AI aversion? Effects of author disclosure on young people’s perceptions of mental health advice ✍ Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Marita Skjuve, Asbjørn Følstad doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🌷 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! ☀️

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🔟 Instagram Passive Active Use Measure (iPAUM): Development, validation and relation to self-esteem ✍ Katrine B. Tølbøll, Jennifer Stead, Anke C. Plagnol doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

9️⃣ Factors associated with connectedness to social media influencers among Italian and Dutch young adults ✍ Maria Rosaria Nappa, Sara Pabian, Mara Morelli, Angela Costabile, Elena Cattelino , Roberto Baiocco doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

8️⃣ What’s the optimal usage pattern? Latent profile analysis of Chinese young adults’ social networking site use and its association with subjective well-being ✍ Xue-Qin Yin, Jin-Liang Wang, Xiang Niu, Sebastian Scherr, James Gaskin, Dean McDonnell doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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