Current Research

On this page you will find information about our current and completed research projects. Of course, we would be pleased if you participated in our current studies.

Current Research

VR-based studies in our Virtual Reality Lab

Effects of phubbing within human-agent interaction.

Decoding Love
Intervention study aimed to reduce phubbing behaviors in romantic partnerships.

Phubbing
Meta-Analyses on the determinants and consequences of problematic smartphone use in social interactions.

Active mobility

TWOgether
A planning intervention to increase physical activity in adolescents.

Good Morning scrolling

Without Smartphone – digital detox as a solution?
An investigation of the effects of daily smartphone use in employees.

Publications

2023

Nuñez, T. R., & Radtke, T. (2023). Is socially disruptive smartphone use detrimental to well-being? A systematic meta-analytic review on being phubbed. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-29. DOI

2022

Nuñez, T. R., Pallasch, N., & Radtke, T. (2022). Students' Emotional Well-being and Academic Functioning Before, During, and After Lockdown in Germany: Cohort Study. JMIR Formative Research, 6(11), e34388. DOI

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22), e2111091119. DOI

Dewi, T. K., Ruiter, R. A., Diering, M., Ardi, R., & Massar, K. (2022). Breast self-examination as a route to early detection in a lower-middle-income country: assessing psychosocial determinants among women in Surabaya, Indonesia. BMC Women's Health, 22(1), 1-9. DOI

2021

Keller, J., Roitzheim, C., Radtke, T., Schenkel, K., & Schwarzer, R. (2021). A Mobile Intervention for Self-Efficacious and Goal-Directed Smartphone Use in the General Population: Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 9(11):e26397. DOI

Obremski, D., Schäfer, A.L., Lange, B.P., Lugrin, B., Ganal, E., Witt, L., Nuñez, T.R., Schwarz, S., & Schwab, F., (2021). Put that Away and Talk to Me - the Effects of Smartphone-induced Ostracism while Interacting with an Intelligent Virtual Agent. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 428-432. DOI

Radtke, T., Apel, T., Schenkel, K., Keller, J., & von Lindern, E. (2021). Digital detox – a passing trend or a lasting solution in the smartphone era? A systematic review of the literature. Mobile Media & Communication. DOI

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J., K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J. S., Gross, J. J., Agesin, B., Bernado, M., Campos, O., Eudave, L., Grzech, K., Hausamn Ozery, D., Jackson, E. A., Garcia, E. O. L., Meir Drexler, Jurković, A., S., Rana, K., Wilson, J. P., … Radtke, T., …Moshontz, H. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089–1110. DOI

Ostermann, T., Gampe, J., Röer, J.-P., & Radtke, T. (2021). Antecedents of individuals concerns regarding hygiene in hospitals and the decision to postpone surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a cross-sectional online-survey in Germany. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(3): e24804. DOI

Schenkel, K., Radtke, T., Luszczynska, A., Lüscher, J., Kulis, E., & Scholz, U. (2021). From a mother's point of view: Psycho-social predictors of maternal monitoring strategy and adolescents' electronic media use. Journal of Adolescence, 88, 134-145. DOI

2020

Nuñez, T. R., Radtke, T., & Eimler, S. C. (2020). A third-person perspective on phubbing: Observing smartphone-induced social exclusion generates negative affect, stress, and derogatory attitudes. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 14(3). DIO