The availability of smartphones, tablets and mobile internet has led to a change in private communication behavior in just a few years: Many teenagers and young adults are online almost non-stop and communicate constantly with friends or unknown peers via messenger and social networking sites. Against this backdrop, we will examine the circumstances under which members of social network sites also disclose risky information about themselves, how norms of friendship and group relationships are changing as a result of increasingly chat-based communication and to what extent the permanent connection through social networks triggers an increased level of self-promotional considerations and actions.

Zentrale Publikationen:

Krämer, N. C., Feurstein, M., Kluck, J. P., Meier, Y., Rother, M., & Winter, S. (2017). Beware of selfies: The impact of photo type on impression formation based on social networking profiles.Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 188. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00188

Winter, S., Neubaum, G., Eimler, S. C., Gordon, V., Theil, J., Herrmann, J., Meinert, J., & Krämer, N. C. (2014). Another brick in the Facebook wall – How personality traits relate to the content of status updates. Computers in Human Behavior, 34, 194–202. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.048