Publikationen

2026 / in press

• Lutz, S., & Büttner, C. M. (2026). Swipe, chat, unmatch: The psychological consequences of being rejected on dating apps. Media Psychology. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2026.2633228
• Lutz, S., & Büttner, C. M. (2026). "This message was deleted": The psychological consequences of being out of the loop during messenger use. Media Psychology, 29(1), 56–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2025.2459292
• Lutz, S., Schneider, F. M., & Halfmann, A. (2026). Staying healthy despite social pressure to be available? An experimental test applying the Integrative Model of Mobile Media Use and Need Experiences (IM³UNE). Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 100977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2026.100977
• Yeo, J., Classen, K. L., & Stein, J.-P. (in press). A window into the other side of the world: Predictors of viewers’ interest in culturally distant media. Journal of Media Psychology. DOI coming soon.

2025

• Breves, P. L., Boerman, S. C., Stein, J.-P., Ischen, C., & van Berlo. Z. M. C. (2025). The impact of body-positive and fitspirational influencers on body satisfaction: A longitudinal study of evolving parasocial relationships. Human Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqaf029
• Büttner, C. M., & Lutz, S. (2025a). Coping with online versus offline exclusion: Ostracism context affects individuals’ coping intentions. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 18, 100674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100674
• Büttner, C. M., & Lutz, S. (2025b). When does waiting for a reply turn into ghosting? Individual, relational, and situational predictors of feeling ignored in online messaging. Computers in Human Behavior, 172, 108774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108774
• Forner, L., Lutz, S., Zheng, X., & Stein, J.-P. (2025). The dark side of fandom: Exploring the association between parasocial relationships with celebrities and aggression. Media Psychology, 2562009. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2025.2562009 
• Gnambs, T., Stein, J.-P., Appel, M., Griese, F., & Zinn, S. (2025). An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE). Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 3, 100106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2024.100106  
• Gnambs, T., Stein, J.-P., Zinn, S., Griese, F., & Appel, M. (2025). Attitudes, experiences, and usage intentions of artificial intelligence: A population study in Germany. Telematics and Informatics, 98, 102265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2025.102265  
• Lutz, S., Schneider, F. M., Halfmann, A., Freytag, A., & Hefner, D. (2025). Navigating social pressure to be available: The roles of mindfulness and need experiences in messenger users’ well-/ill-being. Mobile Media & Communication. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579251370458
• Yeo, J., & Stein, J.-P. (2025). Digitally created body positivity: The effects of virtual influencers with different body types on viewer perceptions. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 100231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100231

2024

• Breves, P. L., Paryschew, L., & Stein, J.-P. (2023). Be positive? The interplay of Instagram influencers’ body type and favorable user comments on young women’s perceptions, affective well-being, and exercise intentions. Psychology of Popular Media, 13(4), 709–720. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000499
• Grundke, A., Appel, M. & Stein, J.-P. (2024). Aversion against machines with complex mental abilities: The role of individual differences. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2(2), 100087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2024.100087  
• Lutz, S., Büttner, C. M., & Neumann, D. (2024). A window to what we missed: Effects of self- versus other-exclusion on social media users’ fundamental needs, emotional responses, and online coping behaviors. Media Psychology, 27(3), 401–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2242769
• Lutz, S., Schneider, F. M., Reich, S., Schimmel, M., Oechler, H., & Beinlich, L. (2024). Fictional friends and enemies as first aid after ostracism? Experimentally investigating the potential of para-/orthosocial relationships in belongingness need restoration and emotion regulation. Human Communication Research. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqae009
• Stein, J.-P., Breves, P. L., & Anders, N. (2024). Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness. New Media & Society, 26(6), 3433–3453. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221102900  
• Stein, J.-P., Liebers, N., & Faiss, M. (2024). Feeling better…but also less lonely? An experimental investigation of how parasocial and social relationships affect people’s well-being. Mass Communication & Society, 27(3), 576–598. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2127369 
• Stein, J.-P., & MacDorman, K. F. (2024). After confronting one uncanny valley, another awaits. Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, 1, 276–277. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-024-00041-w  
• Stein, J.-P., Messingschlager, T., Gnambs, T., Hutmacher, F., & Appel, M. (2024). Attitudes towards AI: Measurement and associations with personality. Scientific Reports, 14, 2909. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53335-2  
• Stein, J.-P., Scheufen, S., & Appel, M. (2024). Recognizing the beauty in diversity: Exposure to body-positive content on social media broadens women’s concept of ideal body weight. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(11), 2642–2656. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001397  

2023

• Appel, M., Hutmacher, F., Politt, T., & Stein, J.-P. (2023). Swipe right? Using beauty filters in male Tinder profiles reduces women's evaluations of trustworthiness but increases physical attractiveness and dating intention. Computers in Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107871  
• Breves, P. L., & Stein, J.-P. (2023). Cognitive load in immersive media settings: The role of spatial presence and cybersickness. Virtual Reality, 27, 1077–1089. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-022-00697-5
• Grundke, A., Stein, J.-P., & Appel, M. (2023). Improving evaluations of advanced robots by depicting them in harmful situations. Computers in Human Behavior, 140, 107565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107565
• Lutz, S. (2023). Why don’t you answer me?! Exploring the effects of (repeated exposure to) ostracism via messengers on users’ fundamental needs, well-being, and coping motivation. Media Psychology, 26(2), 113–140.https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2101008
• Lutz, S., Schneider, F. M., & Reich, S. (2023). Media as powerful coping tools to recover from social exclusion experiences? A systematic review on need restoration and emotion regulation through using media. Media Psychology, 26(4), 388–413. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2147085
• Stein, J.-P. (2023). Smile back at me, but only once: Social norms of appropriate nonverbal intensity and reciprocity apply to emoji use. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47, 245–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00424-x 
• Stein, J.-P., & Banks, J. (2023). Valenced media effects on robot-related attitudes and mental models: A parasocial contact approach. Human–Machine Communication, 6, 155–182. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.6.9  

2022

• Grundke, A., Stein, J.-P., & Appel, M. (2022). Mind-reading machines: Distinct user responses to thought-detecting and emotion-detecting robots. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000053
• Stein, J.-P., Cimander, P., & Appel, M. (2022). Power-posing robots: The influence of a humanoid robot’s posture and size on its perceived dominance, competence, eeriness, and threat. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 1413–1422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00878-x
• Stein, J.-P., Koban, K., Joos, S., & Ohler, P. (2022). Worth the effort? Comparing different YouTube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(3), 426–436. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000374
• Weber, S., Messingschlager, T., & Stein, J.-P. (2022). This is an Insta-vention! Exploring cognitive countermeasures to reduce negative consequences of social comparisons on Instagram. Media Psychology, 25(3), 411–440. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.1968440

2021

• Koban, K., Biehl, J., Bornemeier, J., & Ohler, P. (2021). Compensatory video gaming. Gaming behaviours and adverse outcomes and the moderating role of stress, social interaction anxiety, and loneliness. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.1946154
• Mara, M., Stein, J.-P., Latoschik, M. E., Lugrin, B., Schreiner, C., Hostettler, R., & Appel, M.  (2021). User responses to a humanoid robot observed in real life, virtual reality, 3D, and 2D. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633178
• Stein, J.-P. (2021). Conjuring up the departed in virtual reality: The good, the bad, and the potentially ugly. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(4), 505–510. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000315 
• Stein, J.-P., & Appel, M. (2021). How to deal with researcher harassment in the social sciences. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 178–180. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01011-6
• Stein, J.-P., Krause, E., & Ohler, P. (2021). Every (Insta-)gram counts? Applying cultivation theory to explore the effects of Instagram on young users' body image. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(1), 87–97. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000268
• Stein, J.-P., & Yeo, J. (2021). Investigating meal-concurrent media use: Social and dispositional predictors, intercultural differences, and the novel media phenomenon of “mukbang” eating broadcasts. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(5), 956–968. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.306