Cyberpsychology Journal

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!✨

We are grateful to all the authors, reviewers, editors, and assistants who made this issue possible - your hard work and dedication are deeply appreciated! 🙏

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Meme-ingful connections: Unleashing the power of memes, GIFs, and emojis in relationship-oriented online communication

Rachel X. Peng, Jin Chen

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Theory of mind predicts emoji comprehension in a sample of early adolescents: The moderating effect of social media use

Elisa Bisagno, Simone Pinetti, Alice Lucarini, Martina Basciano, Alessia Cadamuro

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Fear of missing out mediates the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and problematic smartphone use severity

Nisha Yao, Caleb Hallauer, Elyse Hutcheson, Jon Elhai

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Convergent and divergent predictors of extensive use time and problematic TikTok use

Ágnes Zsila, Mara S. Aruguete, Reza Shabahang, Ágnes Buvár, Gábor Orosz

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Unravelling social network usage patterns: A study based on unsupervised learning

Alfredo Zarco-Alpuente, Víctor Ciudad-Fernández, Marta Carrique-Martínez, Lucas Serrano-Pastor, Elisabeth Malonda-Vidal, Anna Llorca-Mestre, Rafael García-Ros, Paula Samper-García

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Bystanders’ perceptions on online hate speech: Investigating the effects of perpetrators’ justifications and the bystander’s role on bystanders’ attitude and prosocial intervention intentions

Sara Pabian

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Breaking barriers: The impact of intergroup contact on bystanders' actions against bias-based cyberbullying

Raquel António, Rita Guerra, Lindsey Cameron, Carla Moleiro

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Navigating the digital landscape: Exploring the relationship between social media affordances and Chinese Generation Z’s online prosocial and antisocial behaviors

Wu Li, Pengya Ai, Tian You Guo, Lianshan Zhang

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The relationship between usage of social networking sites and meaning in life: Anonymous versus identifiable contexts

Lewis Nitschinsk, Stephanie J. Tobin, Nino Gugushvili, Carly A. McComb, Philippe Verduyn

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Investigating the cross-sectional and longitudinal relationship of X and LINE use with online relationship and life satisfaction: A 4-Year cohort study among Japanese adults

Yu Takizawa

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Does the mere presence of smartphones impact cognition in the high school classroom?

Daniel B. le Roux, Douglas A. Parry, Jennifer Feldman

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🍂 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!✨

We are deeply grateful to all the reviewers and editors who devote their time and expertise to provide thoughtful assessments and meaningful feedback. Our thanks also go to the authors, who place their trust in us and work diligently to improve their manuscripts throughout the review process. 🙏 ✨

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... because it's hard to get quality reviews.

In 2024, we sent a total of 2,415 review requests - that's 26 per article!

Most of these requests were left unanswered, and only 11% were accepted. Even among those, some were of low quality, and some were never delivered.

So to all reviewers:

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How long does it take?

70% of manuscripts received the initial editorial decision within 10 days (M = 11 days).

50% of manuscripts sent to reviews received the decision after the first round of reviews within 146 days from submission (M = 167 days).

Why so long?...

What are the chances of getting published?

Our acceptance rate is around 9%.

BUT most rejections happen after the initial editorial evaluation or after the first round of reviews. So if you get invited to revise the manuscript, the chances of getting published are high!

How many submissions?

In 2024, we received 501 new submissions - our highest number ever!🤩

And we are on track to surpass that in 2025 🥲😮‍💨

Cyberpsychology

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 🧵

🔟 Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences

Snodgrass, Sagstetter, Branstrator, Giardina, Lacy, Bollinger-Deters, Callendar, Zhao, Dengah II, & Billieux

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9️⃣ Big Five personality dimensions and disintegration as antecedents of vertical and horizontal internet privacy concerns

Jošt Bartol, Michael Bošnjak, Vasja Vehovar, Gregor Čehovin, Andraž Petrovčič

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8️⃣ To respond or not to respond: The effects of interpersonal goals on responsive Facebook behaviours

Danielle Villoresi, Stephanie J. Tobin, Jennifer Crocker, Tao Jiang

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7️⃣ Comparative network analysis of nomophobia and mental health symptoms among college and middle school students

Shixiu Ren, Xiaoxu Lu, Shihui Ren, Manyuan Li, Tour Liu

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6️⃣ (Dis)Connected: Finding the link between problematic use of internet, parent-child communication and academic performance in emerging adults

Alda Portugal, Carina Almada, Luciana Sotero, Ana Paula Relvas

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5️⃣ Problematic TikTok use severity, self-control, and school engagement: A one-year longitudinal study

Qingqi Liu, Chenyan Zhang, Ziying Yang, Xiaopan Xu

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4️⃣ Longitudinal bidirectional relations between parental phubbing and adolescents’ life satisfaction: The roles of problematic social network use and personality

Xiaoyan Zhou, Fangfang Tian, Xingchao Wang, Xinyi Chen, Jiping Yang, Xueqi Zeng

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3️⃣ The anxiety spiral: Reciprocal reinforcement between uncertainty intolerance and social comparison on social networking sites

Qing Yang , Xinhui Qiu, Yicheng Wang, Miao Lv

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2️⃣ Where you lead, I will follow: Developing a new measure for studying parasocial involvement with influencers

Johanna L. Degen, Diana Pistoll, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Sonja Bröning

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1️⃣ The development and validation of the extended active-passive social media use scale

Xiang Niu, Philippe Verduyn, James Gaskin, Sebastian Scherr, Dean McDonnell, Jin-Liang Wang

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