Moniek Buijzen

Biographic Data

ID150734
NAMEMoniek Buijzen
GIVEN NAMESMoniek
FAMILY NAMEBuijzen
SIGNATUREBUIJZEN M
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0003-3780-0856
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS136
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Designing influential social media campaigns with adolescents in the Netherlands

    Open AccessJonas A Schlicht, Thabo J Van Woudenberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2026

    Social media play a central role in adolescents’ everyday lives and exert meaningful influence on their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Because of this influence potential, these platforms are increasingly leveraged for prosocial digital campaigns aimed at promoting positive youth development. Yet, little is known about how adolescents’ own influence expertise can inform such efforts. To address this gap, we partnered with 70 adolescents (12–1…

  • A Match Made in Language

    Open AccessJonas A Schlicht, Thabo van Woudenberg et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2026

    it is expressed. This is a missed opportunity, as youth-relevant health communication requires attention to both style and content. Digital communication environments enable such adaptation by making users' linguistic patterns visible and available for personalization. Yet little is known about how adolescents respond to health messages written in a similar linguistic style, or how such similarity is best operationalized. Addressing these gaps, t…

  • Why we believe in superfoods

    Open AccessMartin Tanis, Moniek BuijzenARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    Introduction Belief in the benefits of so-called superfoods is widespread, yet little is known about what drives these beliefs, particularly for lesser-known products like moringa. Methods Two studies investigated how individual predispositions and information processing styles shape attitudes toward moringa among consumers unfamiliar with it. Study 1 ( N = 322) used a correlational design to examine the role of superfoods attitudes, personality …

  • Let’s get critical! The effects of facilitated peer discussions on Dutch adolescents’ perceptions of risk behavior in entertainment media and real life

    Anne Sadza, Esther Rozendaal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2025

    Research suggests that critical peer discussions about media portrayals of risk behavior can contribute to adolescents having more critical interpretations of these portrayals, as well as lower perceived social norms regarding real-life risk behavior. However, critical peer discussions rarely occur spontaneously. Therefore, this study investigates how facilitated peer discussions contribute to adolescents’ (n = 237, 50.2% girls, mean age = 15.43)…

  • The influence of a porn literacy intervention on explicit and implicit attitudes

    Open AccessMarina F Thomas, Moniek BuijzenARTICLEStudies in Communication and Media2025

    Mainstream pornography presumably influences explicit and implicit attitudes. This study presents a media literacy intervention specifically for pornography in form of a short video (3 min.) highlighting that pornography is effortfully constructed. After exposing 80 adults between 18 and 33 (60% female) to mainstream pornography, it was experimentally tested if the porn literacy intervention (compared to a matched control video) decreased perceiv…

  • Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents

    Open AccessAnne Sadza, Serena Daalman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2024

    Given the potential for media portrayals to affect adolescents’ cognitions regarding risk behaviors and the importance of message interpretation processes, this study investigates how adolescents give meaning to media portrayals of risk behavior (e.g., alcohol, smoking, drugs, sex, and reckless behavior) and which factors play a role within this process through 7 focus groups followed by 50 individual interviews with adolescents. Findings indicat…

  • Risk on Demand? A Quantitative Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Risky Health Behaviors in Popular on Demand Content

    Open AccessAnne Sadza, Serena Daalman et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Video on Demand (VOD) has become the most popular way for adolescent viewers to consume entertainment media, often without parental supervision. Given the potential for modeling, this study aims to investigate the prevalence and nature with which risky health behaviors are portrayed in popular VOD programs. A quantitative content analysis of trending programs (N = 529) from popular VOD-platforms investigated the prevalence, co-occurrence, tone, s…

  • The effect of a multi-component school-based social network intervention on children’s body mass index

    Open AccessMarloes A A Polman, Desi Beckers et al.ARTICLEPsychology & Health2024

    Objective: Schools are considered an important setting for stimulating healthy weight. The current study is unique in examining effects of a multi-component school-based social network intervention on children’s body mass index z-scores (zBMI).Methods: Four schools were randomly allocated to one of four conditions: a social network intervention using influence agents focusing on water consumption, physical activity, a combination of the two, or a…

  • Children’s vulnerability to advertising

    Open AccessEsther Rozendaal, Moniek BuijzenARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Children’s vulnerability to advertising has been the subject of social and political debate for many years. In comparison with adults, children (up to 12 years old) are thought to be more vulnerable when confronted with advertising and, consequently, more sensitive to its impact. The rationale behind this common assumption is that advertising literacy has not fully developed in children, and that they are therefore less capable of recognizing the…

  • Moral Beauty During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessRebecca N H De Leeuw, Thabo J Van Woudenberg et al.ARTICLECommunication Research2023

    In this study, we examined whether adolescents helped others during the COVID-19 pandemic and how stories in the media inspired them in doing so. Using an online daily diary design, 481 younger adolescents ( M = 15.29, SD = 1.76) and 404 older adolescents ( M = 21.48, SD = 1.91) were followed for 2 weeks. Findings from linear mixed effects models demonstrated that feelings of being moved by stories in the media were related to giving emotional su…

  • Parents’ perceptions of parental consent procedures for social science research in the school context

    Open AccessThabo J Van Woudenberg, Esther Rozendaal et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2023Cited by: 1References: 2

    Typically, parents or other legal guardians are asked for an active declaration that the participation of their child in scientific research is informed and voluntary. However, asking for active parental consent leads to lower quality studies and passive parental consent might be preferable. In this study, we used an online survey in which parents ( N = 156) watched video vignettes of multiple types of research in the classroom and asked them to …

  • Inhibitory control moderates the relation between advertising literacy activation and advertising susceptibility

    Open AccessRhianne W Hoek, Esther Rozendaal et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2022

    This study aimed to investigate whether children’s advertising literacy activation affects their susceptibility to advertising and if this relationship is moderated by inhibitory control. In an experiment among 48 children aged 10–13 years old, we made a distinction between children’s conceptual advertising literacy (i.e., knowledge of advertising) and attitudinal advertising literacy (i.e., critical attitude toward advertising). By using a withi…

  • Arranging the fruit basket

    Open AccessJonas A Schlicht, Thabo J Van Woudenberg et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2022

    This study investigated the contents and linguistic styles that adolescents use in their dietary communications on social media. The main aim of the study was to describe adolescents' social media communication practices with regards to diet, in order to better understand dietary social influences and how to effectively intervene in them. The current study made use of an online communication dataset (N = 72,384 messages) of adolescents in primary…

  • The influence of sources in violent news on fright and worry responses of children in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMariska Kleemans, Lisa T Janssen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2022

    Children display fright and worry responses to violent news. Including involved children, non-involved children or experts as sources in children’s news is assumed to reduce these negative effects. However, exemplification theory gives reason to question whether particularly the use of involved children indeed has a reassuring effect. To test this, an experiment was conducted among 237 children (8–13 y/o). They were randomly exposed to a news vid…

  • The relationship between online vigilance and affective well-being in everyday life

    Open AccessNiklas Johannes, Adrian Meier et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2021

    Through communication technology, users find themselves constantly connected to others to such an extent that they routinely develop a mind-set of connectedness. This mind-set has been defined as online vigilance. Although there is a large body of research on media use and well-being, the question of how online vigilance impacts well-being remains unanswered. In this preregistered study, we combine experience sampling and smartphone logging to ad…

  • Development and testing of the advertising literacy activation task

    Open AccessRhianne W Hoek, Esther Rozendaal et al.ARTICLEMedia Psychology2021

    Contains fulltext : 222400.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)

  • Shielding SNS content from parents

    Open AccessMartin Tanis, Moniek BuijzenARTICLECommunication Research Reports2021

    Emerging adults are increasingly “unfriending” their parents on Social Networking Sites (SNS). A survey among 300 emerging adults who recently moved out of the parental home investigated whether family communication patterns were related to shielding of SNS content from parents and whether perceived undesirability of privacy invasion mediated this relation. Structural equation modeling analyses showed that emerging adults from high conformity-ori…

  • The effects of group centrality and accountability on conformity to cyber aggressive norms

    Open AccessDanielle N M Bleize, Doeschka J Anschutz et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2021

    Cyber aggression in messaging apps often involves a group-based process of conformity to aggressive norms. To date, no empirical research has investigated this psychological process and its determinants. Therefore, this study reports two experiments that examined the effects of group centrality (the subjective importance of a social group) and accountability (being accountable for one's actions) on conformity to cyber aggressive norms. Additional…

  • Remember the motivationally-relevant appeals? The influence of social and sensory appeals on memory for pronutritional messages promoting healthy foods

    Lelia Samson, Annemarie J Nanne et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Unhealthy foods advertisements often use motivationally-relevant appeals – i.e., stimuli with survival benefits, linked to hedonic consumption or social eating contexts. These stimuli automatically attract mental resources, resulting in memorable advertisements that can influence consumers’ choices and well-being. Aiming to prevent obesity and encourage healthy lifestyles, we examined the usability of these appeals to promote healthy foods to you…

  • Behind the policy frontline in the Netherlands during the Corona crisis

    Open AccessMoniek Buijzen, Doeschka J Anschutz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2021

    From the onset of the Corona crisis, a specific policy challenge was identified in the Netherlands: How to motivate young people to adhere to the behavioral measures, such as physical distancing? Young people have an important role to play in stopping the virus from spreading, but they may be more difficult to reach and less motivated and able to adhere to the guidelines than adults. Mid-March, Moniek Buijzen was invited to consult the behavioral…

  • Promoting water consumption among Dutch children

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca N H De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    NTR, NL6905, Registered 9 January 2018, https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6905

  • Promoting water consumption among children

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca Nh De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To test the effectiveness of a social network intervention (SNI) to improve children’s healthy drinking behaviours. Design: A three-arm cluster randomised control trial design was used. In the SNI, a subset of children were selected and trained as ‘influence agents’ to promote water consumption–as an alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)–among their peers. In the active control condition, all children were simultaneously expos…

  • Dark and Bright Patterns in Cookie Consent Requests

    Open AccessPaul Graßl, Hanna Schraffenberger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Digital Social Research2021Cited by: 3References: 2

    Dark patterns are (evil) design nudges that steer people’s behaviour through persuasive interface design. Increasingly found in cookie consent requests, they possibly undermine principles of EU privacy law. In two preregistered online experiments we investigated the effects of three common design nudges (default, aesthetic manipulation, obstruction) on users’ consent decisions and their perception of control over their personal data in these situ…

  • A social identity perspective on conformity to cyber aggression among early adolescents on WhatsApp

    Open AccessDanielle N M Bleize, Martin Tanis et al.ARTICLESocial Development2021Cited by: 1References: 12

    Cyber aggressive behaviors such as nonconsensual image sharing, nasty comments, and social exclusion frequently take place on WhatsApp. These behaviors often involve group processes, where adolescents conform to peers’ behaviors. WhatsApp is pre‐eminently suited for group‐communication among adolescents, and, thus, may facilitate conformity to such behaviors. However, research on conformity on WhatsApp is scarce. Therefore, the aim of this study …

  • How media appeals depicting social eating contexts increase the appetitive motivational processing of healthy foods

    Open AccessLelia Samson, Moniek BuijzenARTICLEAppetite2021Cited by: 2References: 51