Marina F Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4448685 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marina F Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Marina F |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS M F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7967-2165 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Are anxiously attached dating app users less successful and feeling worse after use? The moderating role of perceived anonymity affordance
Previous research has demonstrated that anxiously attached individuals have frustrating dating experiences in face-to-face communication. However, little research has tested the association between attachment anxiety and dating experiences in mediated communication. To fill this gap, we drew upon attachment theory to examine how dating app users’ attachment anxiety is associated with how they feel after using dating apps via their perceived datin…
Inspiration for perspiration? Two experiments testing the psychological effects of fitspiration
Decision-Making on Dating Apps
Experiments demonstrated adverse effects of evaluating high numbers of dating app profiles on decision-making. Yet few investigated the effects of choice abundance on self-esteem and anxieties, and the influence of decision-making remains unexplored. To test the main and joint effects of number of profiles and decision mode on self-esteem, mate value, fear of being single, and perceived choice overload, we conducted a 3 (number of profiles: low; …
The influence of a porn literacy intervention on explicit and implicit attitudes
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…
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice Fomo, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps
Dating apps have changed the way people establish contact with potential romantic partners. However, more and more dating apps use algorithms to keep their users’ engagement high. Studies suggest that trust in algorithms can shape offline dating experiences. We theorize that excessive swiping, driven by fear of missing out, predicts trust. We also explore the role of decision fatigue. Findings from a two-wave panel study with N Time2 = 521 young …
Fear of Missing Out, Reflective Smartphone Disengagement, and Loneliness in Late Adolescents
Reflective smartphone disengagement (i.e., deliberate actions to self-regulate when and how one should use one's smartphone) has become a necessary skill in our ever-connected lives, contributing to a healthy balance of related benefits and harms. However, disengaging from one's smartphone might compete with impulsive psychosocial motivators such as fear of missing out (FoMO) on others' rewarding experiences or feelings of loneliness. To shed lig…
Matches but a Spark Ain’t One
Studies showed adverse experiences related to the use of dating applications such as Tinder. However, it remains unclear by which mechanism and under which conditions dating app use has undesired effects. As a mechanism, we investigated excessive swiping, operationalized as youth’s mental preoccupation with profile browsing and swiping compulsivity. As moderators, we investigated swiping in assessment (i.e., critically evaluating profiles), and l…
The psychological influence of dating app matches
Swipe-based dating apps characteristically provide quantitative social feedback in the form of matches. Surveys suggest a link between dating app success and well-being, but the nature of this correlation has yet to be examined. In an experiment with 125 undergraduate women, we manipulated dating app feedback: When accepting a profile, participants had either a high (27/31) or a low chance (3/31) of receiving matches. We found no effect of chance…
Distracted Children? Nighttime Smartphone Use, Children’s Attentional Problems, and School Performance Over Time
During early adolescence children are increasingly using their smartphones not only throughout the day, but also before or even during the nighttime. Prior research has revealed that children’s school performance might suffer because of late-night smartphone use. To gain a further understanding of the consequences of nighttime smartphone use on school performance, this study set out to examine whether children’s nighttime smartphone use is associ…
The agony of partner choice
Dating apps advertise with high availability of potential partners because users seem to prefer extensive choice. However, on the basis of consumer decision making research, we theorized that such excessive choice could have adverse effects, specifically on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload. In Study 1, a survey with 667 adults between 18 and 67, dating app use was associated with an increased perception that the numb…
Love in the Time of Corona
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, in early 2020, lockdowns limited the options for physical intimacy and many resorted to technology-mediated forms of intimacy such as sexting. However, it is unclear what predicted willingness to engage in sexting during the lockdown. The present study filled this gap by investigating COVID-19-related social isolation, privacy concerns, age, and gender as predictors of willingness to engage in sexting. We further…
Fighting over smartphones? Parents' excessive smartphone use, lack of control over children's use, and conflict
Parental regulation of children's smartphone use is typically associated with conflict. To explain conflict, this paper focused on parents' own smartphone use. A panel survey among parent-child pairs (NTme2 = 384) revealed that parents' excessive smartphone use at Time 1 was associated with a lack of control over children's smartphone use at Time 2. Lack of control over children's smartphone use, in turn, was related to conflict about the smartph…
Sexting during social isolation
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, many people were physically separated from their romantic or sexual partners and added sexting to their sexual repertoire. Sexting involves the exchange of sensitive data and thus necessitates personal and interpersonal privacy management strategies such as information control and privacy boundary communication. This study investigates the psychological predictors of sexting-related privacy management. In an o…
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice Fomo, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps
Dating apps have changed the way people establish contact with potential romantic partners. However, more and more dating apps use algorithms to keep their users’ engagement high. Studies suggest that trust in algorithms can shape offline dating experiences. We theorize that excessive swiping, driven by fear of missing out, predicts trust. We also explore the role of decision fatigue. Findings from a two-wave panel study with N Time2 = 521 young …
Fighting over smartphones? Parents' excessive smartphone use, lack of control over children's use, and conflict
Parental regulation of children's smartphone use is typically associated with conflict. To explain conflict, this paper focused on parents' own smartphone use. A panel survey among parent-child pairs (NTme2 = 384) revealed that parents' excessive smartphone use at Time 1 was associated with a lack of control over children's smartphone use at Time 2. Lack of control over children's smartphone use, in turn, was related to conflict about the smartph…
Sexting during social isolation
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, many people were physically separated from their romantic or sexual partners and added sexting to their sexual repertoire. Sexting involves the exchange of sensitive data and thus necessitates personal and interpersonal privacy management strategies such as information control and privacy boundary communication. This study investigates the psychological predictors of sexting-related privacy management. In an o…
The agony of partner choice
Dating apps advertise with high availability of potential partners because users seem to prefer extensive choice. However, on the basis of consumer decision making research, we theorized that such excessive choice could have adverse effects, specifically on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload. In Study 1, a survey with 667 adults between 18 and 67, dating app use was associated with an increased perception that the numb…
Love in the Time of Corona
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, in early 2020, lockdowns limited the options for physical intimacy and many resorted to technology-mediated forms of intimacy such as sexting. However, it is unclear what predicted willingness to engage in sexting during the lockdown. The present study filled this gap by investigating COVID-19-related social isolation, privacy concerns, age, and gender as predictors of willingness to engage in sexting. We further…
Fear of Missing Out, Reflective Smartphone Disengagement, and Loneliness in Late Adolescents
Reflective smartphone disengagement (i.e., deliberate actions to self-regulate when and how one should use one's smartphone) has become a necessary skill in our ever-connected lives, contributing to a healthy balance of related benefits and harms. However, disengaging from one's smartphone might compete with impulsive psychosocial motivators such as fear of missing out (FoMO) on others' rewarding experiences or feelings of loneliness. To shed lig…
Matches but a Spark Ain’t One
Studies showed adverse experiences related to the use of dating applications such as Tinder. However, it remains unclear by which mechanism and under which conditions dating app use has undesired effects. As a mechanism, we investigated excessive swiping, operationalized as youth’s mental preoccupation with profile browsing and swiping compulsivity. As moderators, we investigated swiping in assessment (i.e., critically evaluating profiles), and l…
The psychological influence of dating app matches
Swipe-based dating apps characteristically provide quantitative social feedback in the form of matches. Surveys suggest a link between dating app success and well-being, but the nature of this correlation has yet to be examined. In an experiment with 125 undergraduate women, we manipulated dating app feedback: When accepting a profile, participants had either a high (27/31) or a low chance (3/31) of receiving matches. We found no effect of chance…
Distracted Children? Nighttime Smartphone Use, Children’s Attentional Problems, and School Performance Over Time
During early adolescence children are increasingly using their smartphones not only throughout the day, but also before or even during the nighttime. Prior research has revealed that children’s school performance might suffer because of late-night smartphone use. To gain a further understanding of the consequences of nighttime smartphone use on school performance, this study set out to examine whether children’s nighttime smartphone use is associ…
Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice Fomo, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps
Dating apps have changed the way people establish contact with potential romantic partners. However, more and more dating apps use algorithms to keep their users’ engagement high. Studies suggest that trust in algorithms can shape offline dating experiences. We theorize that excessive swiping, driven by fear of missing out, predicts trust. We also explore the role of decision fatigue. Findings from a two-wave panel study with N Time2 = 521 young …
Inspiration for perspiration? Two experiments testing the psychological effects of fitspiration
Decision-Making on Dating Apps
Experiments demonstrated adverse effects of evaluating high numbers of dating app profiles on decision-making. Yet few investigated the effects of choice abundance on self-esteem and anxieties, and the influence of decision-making remains unexplored. To test the main and joint effects of number of profiles and decision mode on self-esteem, mate value, fear of being single, and perceived choice overload, we conducted a 3 (number of profiles: low; …
The influence of a porn literacy intervention on explicit and implicit attitudes
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…
Are anxiously attached dating app users less successful and feeling worse after use? The moderating role of perceived anonymity affordance
Previous research has demonstrated that anxiously attached individuals have frustrating dating experiences in face-to-face communication. However, little research has tested the association between attachment anxiety and dating experiences in mediated communication. To fill this gap, we drew upon attachment theory to examine how dating app users’ attachment anxiety is associated with how they feel after using dating apps via their perceived datin…
Psychology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (4 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 obras) · Internet privacy (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras)