Dec. 2025 Eric Hitz , Mingmin Feng , Radu Tanase , René Algesheimer , Manuel S. Mariani Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the proliferation of artificial agents in social contexts, ranging from education to online social media and financial markets, among many others. The increasing rate at which artificial and human agents interact makes it urgent to understand the consequences of human-machine interactions for the propagation of new ideas, products, and

Oct. 2025 Yuhong Qiu , Liuye Chen , Chenlyu Xu , Xinlin He , Qingyao Zong , Wen Chen , Fang Liu Highlights Social exclusion increases...

Oct. 2025 Federica Angelini Gianluca Gini Introduction: Digital stress, resulting from expectations of online availability, can increase...

Aug. 2025 Murat Artiran Pinar Tinaz Ömer Faruk Simsek Anthony Miller Katia Correa Vione Martin James Turner Introduction: Recently a new...

Sept. 2025 This study examines the influence of visual aesthetics on Instagram in shaping social identity and user behavior, with a focus...

Sept. 2025 The ability to take others’ perspectives is crucial for social functioning, giving insight into the viewpoints of those around...

Aug. 26, 2025 Three studies examined the effects of randomly assigned messages of social exclusion. In all 3 studies, significant and...

Aug. 26, 2025 The effects of social exclusion are far-reaching, both on an emotional and behavioral level. The present study investigates...

Aug. 21, 2025 Introduction: With the boom in social media, many people spend a lot of time on these platforms. Among them, some...

Aug. 2, 2025 The “Pain Overlap Theory” ( 1 ) proposes that the experience of social pain overlaps with and amplifies the experience of...