Cyberpsychology Journal

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

doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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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🌞 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! 🙌

29th Workshop on Aggression Aggression, Media, and Digital Technologies Abstract submission deadline: July 6, 2025 Conference: November 26–28, 2025 Where: Brno, Czech Republic irtis.muni.cz/woa

📢 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.

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We are grateful to all authors, reviewers, editors, and assistants for their contributions!✨🙏

5️⃣ Understanding how best to host livestream shopping shows: The perspectives of persuasion and parasocial phenomena
✍️Huang & Chen
doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

4️⃣ They shouldn’t be richer than me: How visual wealth exposure on social media increases relative deprivation
✍Yan, Fu, Yang & Han
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3️⃣Artificial presence, real-life influence? Effects of CGI influencers on young adults’ health behavior intentions
✍Saumer, Neureiter, Varga, Gataric, Yupu Liu & Matthes
doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

2️⃣Self-comparison with influencers but not general Instagram use moderate upward and downward social comparisons to #fitspiration and #bodypositive images
✍Moreno-Padilla, Delgado-Rodríguez, Moreno-Domínguez & Cepeda-Benito
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1️⃣Does virtual reality increase the success of interventions? Comparing non-VR and VR Virtual-PRO programmes’ efficacy for the prevention of sexual harassment among adolescents
✍Rodríguez-deArriba, Muñoz-Fernández, Durán-Guerrero, Ortega-Rivera, Jódar-Marín & Sánchez-Jiménez
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🌱 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! ✨

We are grateful to all authors, reviewers, editors, and assistants for their contributions!✨🙏

5️⃣ Understanding how best to host livestream shopping shows: The perspectives of persuasion and parasocial phenomena
✍️Huang & Chen
doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

4️⃣ They shouldn’t be richer than me: How visual wealth exposure on social media increases relative deprivation
✍Yan, Fu, Yang & Han
doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

3️⃣Artificial presence, real-life influence? Effects of CGI influencers on young adults’ health behavior intentions
✍Saumer, Neureiter, Varga, Gataric, Yupu Liu & Matthes
doi.org/10.5817/CP20...