VOLUME 30, ISSUE 5
SEPTEMBER 2025

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VOLUME 30, ISSUE 5
SEPTEMBER 2025

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Social (media) psychology of the “news-finds-me”<br /><br />
perception: habits, mindsets, and beliefs
Unintended encounters with news on social media can foster a reliance on incidental news exposure and the perception that “news finds me.”
Because the “news-finds-me” (NFM) perception has negative consequences for informed and engaged citizenship,…

How cognitive elaboration fosters knowledge acquisition<br /><br />
on social media—a field experiment
Social media technologies have been criticized as ineffective sources of information because users seem to increase their subjective but not
their objective knowledge. While different factors such as multitasking have been brought up as…

The link between social media browsing and emerging<br /><br />
adults’ momentary affective well-being: unraveling levels<br /><br />
of analysis, underlying reasons, and content valence
Social media browsing has been linked to both declines and improvements in affective well-being, with recent research suggesting its effects
depend on key factors. This experience sampling study among emerging adults (N ¼ 108, Mage ¼ 22.29, 61…

Unequal experiences, unequal outcomes? Digital<br /><br />
inequalities in experiencing online benefits and privacy<br /><br />
harms, mistrust, and self-inhibiting behaviors
Digital inequality research shows that certain sociodemographic groups (e.g., older persons) experience fewer benefits from using digital technologies (e.g., not finding useful information). While disadvantage is typically conceptualized as not…
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