With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and
multipurpose application WeChat (, Wēixìn, micro-message) has become one of the world's …

The present article gives an overview on central challenges humans face at the dawn of
complex digital societies and the Internet of Things (IoT), ie, a world completely connected to …

Abstract Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) is the tendency to experience anxiety over missing out
on rewarding experiences of others. It has been associated with daily-life disruptions, such …

The advent of the smartphone has dramatically altered how we communicate, navigate,
work and entertain ourselves. While the advantages of this new technology are clear …

Most individuals spend a great amount of time on their smartphones. The intense usage of
smartphones leads to some physical symptoms, good and bad feelings, pathological …

The present paper hypothesizes how research in personality psychology will change with
the recent emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). In a society, where humankind is …

A recent study has implicated the nucleus accumbens of the ventral striatum in explaining
why online-users spend time on the social network platform Facebook. Here, higher activity …

We present the main messages of a European Expert Round Table (ERT) on the unintended
side effects (unseens) of the digital transition. Seventeen experts provided 42 propositions …

Potential effects of demographics, personality, and ideological attitudes on the number of
news sources consumed should be investigated. The number of news sources consumed, in …

The increasingly widespread use of mobile phone applications (apps) as research tools and
cost-effective means of vast data collection raises new methodological challenges. In recent …