Christiane Büttner

#EASP2026 Pre-Conference “Navigating Social (Dis)Connection: New Perspectives on Exclusion, Stigma, and Solitude” in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 (June 30)!

🎤 Share your research on exclusion, stigma, loneliness, solitude, or belonging!

🗓 Jan 5, 2026
info: disconnectionpreconference.wordpress.com

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Individual and well-being factors associated with social chatbot usage: A six-country study - Rita Latikka, Jenna Bergdahl, Iina Savolainen, Magdalena Celuch, Atte Oksanen, 2025 An increasing number of people are engaging with artificial intelligence–based conversation agents such as social chatbots. The aim of this study was to investi...

🌐Online First Publication:

Latikka et al.’s cross-national study explores who turns to AI chatbots for friendship and how factors like loneliness, well-being, and tech attitudes shape their use across 6 European countries.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...

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thank you so so much 🫶🫶🫶

I am so happy and honored to receive this year's SAGE Emerging Scholar Award! 🎉

Immensely grateful to @spspnews.bsky.social, and huge congratulations to all awardees!! 👏

📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people!

⬇️ Please see the full call below

We are very grateful for all contributions!

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Takeaway: Ghosting is a subjective experience. How long someone is willing to wait for a reply in online messaging meaningfully shapes its interpretation.

Now out in Computers in Human Behavior
💛 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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Personality traits (like rejection sensitivity or #FOMO) didn’t predict response delay tolerance.
However, delay tolerance predicts users’ friendly, confrontational, or avoidant follow-up behavior.

Across 8,000+ ratings of chat scenarios, we found:
❗️ People feel ghosted faster when messages are urgent.
⏱️ People also feel ghosted faster when chat partners are usually quick to reply.
❌ Closeness of the relationship didn’t predict response delay tolerance.

When does waiting for a reply turn into #ghosting? 👻💬

@sarahlutz.bsky.social and I introduce response delay tolerance: the amount of time someone is willing to wait for a response in #online messaging before feeling ignored.

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image: SORA

I am beyond excited to start my @snsf.ch PostdocMobility project with Prof Greg Walton @stanford.edu !

In the project we will look at how people think about their social energy 🔋🪫 and how to utilize those beliefs to make social interactions more positive and meaningful!

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A circle of blue characters with a red character standing outside, indicating exclusion.

📊Research shows people get excluded for two main reasons: breaking group norms or seeming unable to contribute. But researchers report that exclusion decisions are strategic, not just about disliking someone.

Follow SPSP for more #EverydayPsych insights: ow.ly/sY2I50VVCa1

📢 New article! What happens when a message gets deleted before you can read it? 🧐📱

👉 Bottom line: #socialmedia isn’t just where exclusion increasingly often happens, it’s also where people seek reconnection. Coping with exclusion may often mean staying put; digitally speaking.

Wanna learn more? #openaccess paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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📱We find that, after online exclusion, people were more likely to seek reconnection online.
But offline exclusion didn’t prompt more in-person coping, although in-person coping was preferred overall.

We captured 853 real-life episodes of social #exclusion, online and offline, using #experiencesampling (N = 323). Right after each event, participants reported how they wanted to cope: by turning to others online or offline.

🎉 Together with @sarahlutz.bsky.social: New paper out in Computers in Human Behavior Reports!

We asked: After being excluded online or offline do people cope by staying in the same space or by escaping it?

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🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

🚨 New paper out in Journal of Affective Disorders, with @bogatyreva-nat.bsky.social, @chrbuettner.bsky.social, and Rainer Greifeneder!

How are depression and anxiety linked to ostracism? Turns out, it’s a two-way street.

Open access: 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Have we misunderstood narcissists? As a new study sheds light on an under-discussed aspect of narcissism, Olivia Petter asks if we’ve been getting it wrong this whole time – and what the consequences of that might be

🗞️ Have we misunderstood narcissists? The Independent covers recent research by @chrbuettner.bsky.social, @ealbath.bsky.social, @selmarudert.bsky.social and colleagues.
Check it out here ⬇️
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/n...

Our findings highlight how #personality traits like narcissism shape social exclusion experiences in complex ways.

Want to dig deeper?

💚 Open Access: researchgate.net/publication/...

🔗 doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

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🔹Mechanism 3: Reverse causality - Ostracism and narcissism reinforce each other over time.

In 14 years of #NZAVS data using #RICLPM, we show a negative loop: Narcissists report more ostracism, and ostracism predicts increases in narcissism over time.

A self-perpetuating cycle ⬇️

🔹Mechanism 2: Target behavior - Narcissists actually get excluded more often.

Two experiments show that people are more likely to ostracize individuals with narcissistic traits, especially those high in narcissistic rivalry.

🔹Mechanism 1: Negative perceptions - Narcissists are more sensitive to exclusion cues.

Four experiments show that narcissists are more likely to perceive ambiguous situations (but not unambiguous situations like #Cyberball) as ostracism.

First, the key findings:

Across two national surveys, a 14-day experience sampling study, and six experiments (N = 77,289), we find that grandiose narcissism is strongly linked to experiencing ostracism more frequently. But why?

We identify three mechanisms:

(PDF) Narcissists' Experience of Ostracism PDF | Ostracism—being excluded and ignored—has severe, negative consequences. What is less clear is why some individuals become frequent targets of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Why do narcissists report being ostracized more often?

In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology @apajournals.bsky.social w/ @selmarudert.bsky.social @ealbath.bsky.social CSibley RGreifeneder, we examine the link between #narcissism & #ostracism.

🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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@easpinfo.bsky.social

EASP is moving from X to LinkedIn

Please EASP, be sure to *start using Bluesky*. MANY of us are here now.

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“This Message was Deleted”: The Psychological Consequences of Being Out of the Loop During Messenger Use Many messenger services, such as WhatsApp or Snapchat, offer the option of deleting messages after they have been sent, leaving a so-called delete notification in the chat. Especially in group chat...

📢 Publication Alert!
Excited to share that our latest research, co-authored with
@chrbuettner.bsky.social, has just been published! 🎉 #MediaPsychology

🔓 #OpenAccess via: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huge thanks to Luca Pancani & Paolo Riva for initiating a great article collection on the social influence of phubbing!

Cultural differences in perceiving co-present phone use as phubbing: Evidence from six countries Phubbing is feeling excluded and ignored by someone using a phone during a face-to-face interaction. Phubbing has mostly been investigated in Western samples. However, culture likely shapes whether...

New #OpenAccess paper in Social Influence!

@ealbath.bsky.social R Greifeneder, and I studied how #culture shapes perceptions of #phubbing, feeling ignored when someone uses their phone, in six countries: 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 🇻🇪 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 & 🇬🇧 (flag test 😉)!

Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1553...

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Why do people react so differently to being left out? 💔

Check out my #scicomm article for @psyche.co on how #ostracism affects us and what drives our varied responses: reaching out, backing out, or lashing out.

Read here: psyche.co/ideas/why-be...

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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

I am the new Associate Editor for Special Issues at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social and I could not be more excited to be in the role!

We're looking for Guest Editors to propose potential special issues! Read all about what that means at the link below!

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