Susanne E Baumgartner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 135454 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susanne E Baumgartner |
| PRENOMES | Susanne E |
| SOBRENOME | Baumgartner |
| ASSINATURA | BAUMGARTNER S E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6031-8836 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Adolescents’ Digital Nightlife
The smartphone occupies a substantial part of adolescents’ daily life, from the moment they wake up to, for some, well beyond their bedtime. The current study compared the impact of adolescents’ daytime, pre-bedtime, and post-bedtime smartphone use on their sleep quality. In addition, it explored the differential effects of lean-back and lean-forward smartphone apps. We collected data from 155 adolescents across 21 days using smartphone tracking …
Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement
Given the vast amount of permanently available entertainment content and the high pleasure that viewers derive from it, the question of when and why users disengage from a media entertainment viewing session becomes more pressing. We argue in this paper that communication theories lack a conceptualization of the disengagement part of the communication process. The study presents a novel dynamic view on media use, and argues that specific processe…
Beyond the Buzz
Turning off push notifications is a common recommendation to reduce smartphone screen time and to improve daily experiences of digital well-being. As only little empirical evidence exists, this study aims to test the effectiveness of this strategy. Based on a preregistered randomized controlled trial ( N = 205), including objectively logged smartphone behavior data and daily mobile diary assessments of subjective experiences, we found that a one-…
For you vs. for everyone
This study investigated the effects of algorithmic personalization on social media. • After a baseline week, 88 TikTok users switched to a less personalized feed for one week. • During the less personalized week, daily frequency and duration of TikTok use decreased. • TikTok use was perceived as more controlled, yet less enjoyable. Social media platforms increasingly use algorithmic personalization, raising concerns about potential uncontrolled u…
Beyond screentime
Health professionals and scholars alike consider evening smartphone use an important public health challenge.Existing research on the effects of smartphone usage on sleep has three limitations, namely reliance on self-report measures of smartphone use and/or sleep, limited attention to within-person effects, and a focus on general screentime rather than specific app usage.The current study addressed these limitations by conducting a seven-day stu…
On the stabilization of media effects after repeated exposure
Public concerns about media effects are oftentimes fueled by anecdotal evidence and popular press reports pointing towards strong media effects. Interestingly, however, these public concerns are in contrast to findings from empirical studies that point towards minimal media effects. In the past decades, scholars have proposed several explanations for these minimal effects. This article adds to this, by proposing that one reason is that media effe…
Too amused to stop? Self-control and the disengagement process on Netflix
Consuming media entertainment often challenges recipients’ self-control. While past research related self-control almost exclusively to whether individuals engage in media use, it might be equally relevant for the disengagement from media use. Testing core assumptions of the Appraisal of Media Use, Self-Control, and Entertainment (AMUSE) model, the present study investigates the situational interplay of self-control and affective appraisals in pr…
Unraveling the dynamics of perceived smartphone overuse and disconnection strategies
This six-wave longitudinal survey study investigated associations between perceived smartphone overuse and the use of technology-based disconnection strategies. The sample was representative of the Dutch population regarding age, gender, and education level ( N = 1674). Linear mixed models showed that perceived overuse was positively related to self-reported screen time and motivations to reduce screen time. People with higher perceived overuse w…
Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being
In response to the growing public concern about digital well-being, many tools have been developed for individuals to reduce their screen time. An understudied but promising self-nudge intervention is turning off smartphone screen colors (i.e., grayscaling). Since a grayscale setting is available on all smartphones, it has the potential to be an easily implemented intervention. The main aim of the current study was to assess the efficacy of a gra…
Cutting Through the Comment Chaos
Social scientists often study comments on YouTube to learn about people’s attitudes towards and experiences of online videos. However, not all YouTube comments are relevant in the sense that they reflect individuals’ thoughts about, or experiences of the content of a video or its artist/maker. Therefore, the present paper employs Supervised Machine Learning to automatically assess comments written in response to music videos in terms of their rel…
Not all media multitasking is the same
Media multitasking comprises a variety of different behaviors, ranging from watching TV while sending a text message to listening to music while gaming. However, we still know little about which media multitasking behaviors are selected more frequently and whether specific characteristics of the media activities determine this choice. Therefore, the present study examined to what extent media multitasking is predicted by 4 cognitive dimensions (W…
Situational boundary conditions of digital stress
Mobile connectivity can negatively affect smartphone users by eliciting stress. Past research focused on stress-inducing potentials of smartphone use behaviors and, recently, on the cognitive-motivational engagement with online interactions. However, theoretical perspectives as the mobile connectivity paradox and the IM3UNE model further suggest that digital stress effects may be conditional. A preregistered experience sampling study ( n = 123; 1…
A Novel iOS Data Donation Approach
For social scientists who are interested in understanding smartphone-usage patterns, as well as the causes and effects of smartphone use, it is crucial to get accurate estimates of smartphone and app usage. For this reason, we present a novel data donation approach based on screen video recordings of information provided by the iOS Battery Section. In this paper, we describe the Python script that can be used to process the data automatically. Mo…
Sharing the Fun? How Social Information Affects Viewers’ Video Enjoyment and Video Evaluations
Online video platforms often present videos together with social information in the form of user comments and likes. This study tested two hypotheses about how this merger of mass and interpersonal communication on online video platforms shapes viewers’ evaluations and enjoyment of online videos. Whereas the judgement effect hypothesis states that social information alters viewers’ video evaluations, the processing effect hypothesis poses that it…
A social identity perspective on the effect of social information on online video enjoyment
To date, videos are often presented on social media platforms where they are accompanied by social information in the form of user comments. Research suggests that this social information can alter viewers’ video enjoyment. The present study aimed to learn more about two factors that may enhance this effect by conducting a 2x2 between-subjects experiment with a control group (N = 290, Mage = 20.82, SDage = 2.49) in the Netherlands. First, we inve…
Exploring the long-term relationship between academic-media multitasking and adolescents’ academic achievement
Adolescents commonly use media and communication devices during academic activities, also referred to as academic-media multitasking. Although there is evidence for the short-term effect of academic-media multitasking on academic achievement, support for its long-term effect is lacking. Therefore, we investigated the long-term relationship between academic-media multitasking and academic achievement, and the possible underlying mechanism of acade…
Youth and Media
Be it television, mobile phones or social networking sites – media technologies and applications form a substantial part of young people’s lives. It is significant that media use is one of the most prevalent daily activities during a period of life in which crucial developmental goals are pursued: During adolescence and young adulthood individuals strive to establish critical social relationships, achieve autonomy from their parents and develop a…
Exploring User Responses to Entertainment and Political Videos
On YouTube, videos are always presented together with additional user-generated information about those videos. This social information is presented in the form of number of views, (dis)likes, or comments. However, we know little about the characteristics of social information about entertainment videos. To fill this gap, the present study examined the amount and valence of online entertainment videos’ social information and compared this to the …
Dealing with media distractions
The aim of this observational study was to investigate differences in computer-based multitasking among children and adults. Moreover, the study investigated how attention problems are related to computer-based multitasking and how these individual differences interact with age. Computer-based multitasking was observed for a 10-minute period among children (N = 164, aged 6–13) and adults (N = 160, aged 18–75) in the Netherlands. The findings indi…
Norms of online expressions of emotion
The main aim of this study was to examine the norms of expressing emotions on social media. Specifically, the perceived appropriateness (i.e. injunctive norms) of expressing six discrete emotions (i.e. sadness, anger, disappointment, worry, joy, and pride) was investigated across four different social media platforms. Drawing on data collected in March 2016 among 1201 young Dutch users (15-25 years), we found that positive expressions were genera…
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Attention Problems in Adolescents
The increased prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents has raised concerns that media multitasking may cause attention problems. Despite cross‐sectional evidence of the relationship between media multitasking and attention problems, no study has yet investigated this relationship longitudinally. It is therefore unclear how these two variables are related. Two 3‐wave longitudinal studies with 3‐ and 6‐month time lags were conducted. In t…
The consequences of media multitasking for youth
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents
The increasing prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents is concerning because it may be negatively related to goal-directed behavior. This study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and executive function in 523 early adolescents (aged 11-15; 48% girls). The three central components of executive functions (i.e., working memory, shifting, and inhibition) were measured using self-reports and standardized performance-ba…
Assessing Causality in the Relationship Between Adolescents’ Risky Sexual Online Behavior and Their Perceptions of this Behavior
The main aim of this study was to investigate the causal nature of the relationship between adolescents' risky sexual behavior on the internet and their perceptions of this behavior. Engagement in the following online behaviors was assessed: searching online for someone to talk about sex, searching online for someone to have sex, sending intimate photos or videos to someone online, and sending one's telephone number and address to someone exclusi…
Norms of online expressions of emotion
The main aim of this study was to examine the norms of expressing emotions on social media. Specifically, the perceived appropriateness (i.e. injunctive norms) of expressing six discrete emotions (i.e. sadness, anger, disappointment, worry, joy, and pride) was investigated across four different social media platforms. Drawing on data collected in March 2016 among 1201 young Dutch users (15-25 years), we found that positive expressions were genera…
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents
The increasing prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents is concerning because it may be negatively related to goal-directed behavior. This study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and executive function in 523 early adolescents (aged 11-15; 48% girls). The three central components of executive functions (i.e., working memory, shifting, and inhibition) were measured using self-reports and standardized performance-ba…
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Attention Problems in Adolescents
The increased prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents has raised concerns that media multitasking may cause attention problems. Despite cross‐sectional evidence of the relationship between media multitasking and attention problems, no study has yet investigated this relationship longitudinally. It is therefore unclear how these two variables are related. Two 3‐wave longitudinal studies with 3‐ and 6‐month time lags were conducted. In t…
Assessing Causality in the Relationship Between Adolescents’ Risky Sexual Online Behavior and Their Perceptions of this Behavior
The main aim of this study was to investigate the causal nature of the relationship between adolescents' risky sexual behavior on the internet and their perceptions of this behavior. Engagement in the following online behaviors was assessed: searching online for someone to talk about sex, searching online for someone to have sex, sending intimate photos or videos to someone online, and sending one's telephone number and address to someone exclusi…
A Novel iOS Data Donation Approach
For social scientists who are interested in understanding smartphone-usage patterns, as well as the causes and effects of smartphone use, it is crucial to get accurate estimates of smartphone and app usage. For this reason, we present a novel data donation approach based on screen video recordings of information provided by the iOS Battery Section. In this paper, we describe the Python script that can be used to process the data automatically. Mo…
Exploring User Responses to Entertainment and Political Videos
On YouTube, videos are always presented together with additional user-generated information about those videos. This social information is presented in the form of number of views, (dis)likes, or comments. However, we know little about the characteristics of social information about entertainment videos. To fill this gap, the present study examined the amount and valence of online entertainment videos’ social information and compared this to the …
Situational boundary conditions of digital stress
Mobile connectivity can negatively affect smartphone users by eliciting stress. Past research focused on stress-inducing potentials of smartphone use behaviors and, recently, on the cognitive-motivational engagement with online interactions. However, theoretical perspectives as the mobile connectivity paradox and the IM3UNE model further suggest that digital stress effects may be conditional. A preregistered experience sampling study ( n = 123; 1…
Exploring the long-term relationship between academic-media multitasking and adolescents’ academic achievement
Adolescents commonly use media and communication devices during academic activities, also referred to as academic-media multitasking. Although there is evidence for the short-term effect of academic-media multitasking on academic achievement, support for its long-term effect is lacking. Therefore, we investigated the long-term relationship between academic-media multitasking and academic achievement, and the possible underlying mechanism of acade…
Cutting Through the Comment Chaos
Social scientists often study comments on YouTube to learn about people’s attitudes towards and experiences of online videos. However, not all YouTube comments are relevant in the sense that they reflect individuals’ thoughts about, or experiences of the content of a video or its artist/maker. Therefore, the present paper employs Supervised Machine Learning to automatically assess comments written in response to music videos in terms of their rel…
Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being
In response to the growing public concern about digital well-being, many tools have been developed for individuals to reduce their screen time. An understudied but promising self-nudge intervention is turning off smartphone screen colors (i.e., grayscaling). Since a grayscale setting is available on all smartphones, it has the potential to be an easily implemented intervention. The main aim of the current study was to assess the efficacy of a gra…
Assessing Causality in the Relationship Between Adolescents’ Risky Sexual Online Behavior and Their Perceptions of this Behavior
The main aim of this study was to investigate the causal nature of the relationship between adolescents' risky sexual behavior on the internet and their perceptions of this behavior. Engagement in the following online behaviors was assessed: searching online for someone to talk about sex, searching online for someone to have sex, sending intimate photos or videos to someone online, and sending one's telephone number and address to someone exclusi…
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents
The increasing prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents is concerning because it may be negatively related to goal-directed behavior. This study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and executive function in 523 early adolescents (aged 11-15; 48% girls). The three central components of executive functions (i.e., working memory, shifting, and inhibition) were measured using self-reports and standardized performance-ba…
The consequences of media multitasking for youth
Dealing with media distractions
The aim of this observational study was to investigate differences in computer-based multitasking among children and adults. Moreover, the study investigated how attention problems are related to computer-based multitasking and how these individual differences interact with age. Computer-based multitasking was observed for a 10-minute period among children (N = 164, aged 6–13) and adults (N = 160, aged 18–75) in the Netherlands. The findings indi…
Norms of online expressions of emotion
The main aim of this study was to examine the norms of expressing emotions on social media. Specifically, the perceived appropriateness (i.e. injunctive norms) of expressing six discrete emotions (i.e. sadness, anger, disappointment, worry, joy, and pride) was investigated across four different social media platforms. Drawing on data collected in March 2016 among 1201 young Dutch users (15-25 years), we found that positive expressions were genera…
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Attention Problems in Adolescents
The increased prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents has raised concerns that media multitasking may cause attention problems. Despite cross‐sectional evidence of the relationship between media multitasking and attention problems, no study has yet investigated this relationship longitudinally. It is therefore unclear how these two variables are related. Two 3‐wave longitudinal studies with 3‐ and 6‐month time lags were conducted. In t…
Youth and Media
Be it television, mobile phones or social networking sites – media technologies and applications form a substantial part of young people’s lives. It is significant that media use is one of the most prevalent daily activities during a period of life in which crucial developmental goals are pursued: During adolescence and young adulthood individuals strive to establish critical social relationships, achieve autonomy from their parents and develop a…
Exploring User Responses to Entertainment and Political Videos
On YouTube, videos are always presented together with additional user-generated information about those videos. This social information is presented in the form of number of views, (dis)likes, or comments. However, we know little about the characteristics of social information about entertainment videos. To fill this gap, the present study examined the amount and valence of online entertainment videos’ social information and compared this to the …
Exploring the long-term relationship between academic-media multitasking and adolescents’ academic achievement
Adolescents commonly use media and communication devices during academic activities, also referred to as academic-media multitasking. Although there is evidence for the short-term effect of academic-media multitasking on academic achievement, support for its long-term effect is lacking. Therefore, we investigated the long-term relationship between academic-media multitasking and academic achievement, and the possible underlying mechanism of acade…
A social identity perspective on the effect of social information on online video enjoyment
To date, videos are often presented on social media platforms where they are accompanied by social information in the form of user comments. Research suggests that this social information can alter viewers’ video enjoyment. The present study aimed to learn more about two factors that may enhance this effect by conducting a 2x2 between-subjects experiment with a control group (N = 290, Mage = 20.82, SDage = 2.49) in the Netherlands. First, we inve…
Sharing the Fun? How Social Information Affects Viewers’ Video Enjoyment and Video Evaluations
Online video platforms often present videos together with social information in the form of user comments and likes. This study tested two hypotheses about how this merger of mass and interpersonal communication on online video platforms shapes viewers’ evaluations and enjoyment of online videos. Whereas the judgement effect hypothesis states that social information alters viewers’ video evaluations, the processing effect hypothesis poses that it…
Not all media multitasking is the same
Media multitasking comprises a variety of different behaviors, ranging from watching TV while sending a text message to listening to music while gaming. However, we still know little about which media multitasking behaviors are selected more frequently and whether specific characteristics of the media activities determine this choice. Therefore, the present study examined to what extent media multitasking is predicted by 4 cognitive dimensions (W…
Situational boundary conditions of digital stress
Mobile connectivity can negatively affect smartphone users by eliciting stress. Past research focused on stress-inducing potentials of smartphone use behaviors and, recently, on the cognitive-motivational engagement with online interactions. However, theoretical perspectives as the mobile connectivity paradox and the IM3UNE model further suggest that digital stress effects may be conditional. A preregistered experience sampling study ( n = 123; 1…
A Novel iOS Data Donation Approach
For social scientists who are interested in understanding smartphone-usage patterns, as well as the causes and effects of smartphone use, it is crucial to get accurate estimates of smartphone and app usage. For this reason, we present a novel data donation approach based on screen video recordings of information provided by the iOS Battery Section. In this paper, we describe the Python script that can be used to process the data automatically. Mo…
Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being
In response to the growing public concern about digital well-being, many tools have been developed for individuals to reduce their screen time. An understudied but promising self-nudge intervention is turning off smartphone screen colors (i.e., grayscaling). Since a grayscale setting is available on all smartphones, it has the potential to be an easily implemented intervention. The main aim of the current study was to assess the efficacy of a gra…
Cutting Through the Comment Chaos
Social scientists often study comments on YouTube to learn about people’s attitudes towards and experiences of online videos. However, not all YouTube comments are relevant in the sense that they reflect individuals’ thoughts about, or experiences of the content of a video or its artist/maker. Therefore, the present paper employs Supervised Machine Learning to automatically assess comments written in response to music videos in terms of their rel…
Too amused to stop? Self-control and the disengagement process on Netflix
Consuming media entertainment often challenges recipients’ self-control. While past research related self-control almost exclusively to whether individuals engage in media use, it might be equally relevant for the disengagement from media use. Testing core assumptions of the Appraisal of Media Use, Self-Control, and Entertainment (AMUSE) model, the present study investigates the situational interplay of self-control and affective appraisals in pr…
Unraveling the dynamics of perceived smartphone overuse and disconnection strategies
This six-wave longitudinal survey study investigated associations between perceived smartphone overuse and the use of technology-based disconnection strategies. The sample was representative of the Dutch population regarding age, gender, and education level ( N = 1674). Linear mixed models showed that perceived overuse was positively related to self-reported screen time and motivations to reduce screen time. People with higher perceived overuse w…
Beyond the Buzz
Turning off push notifications is a common recommendation to reduce smartphone screen time and to improve daily experiences of digital well-being. As only little empirical evidence exists, this study aims to test the effectiveness of this strategy. Based on a preregistered randomized controlled trial ( N = 205), including objectively logged smartphone behavior data and daily mobile diary assessments of subjective experiences, we found that a one-…
For you vs. for everyone
This study investigated the effects of algorithmic personalization on social media. • After a baseline week, 88 TikTok users switched to a less personalized feed for one week. • During the less personalized week, daily frequency and duration of TikTok use decreased. • TikTok use was perceived as more controlled, yet less enjoyable. Social media platforms increasingly use algorithmic personalization, raising concerns about potential uncontrolled u…
Beyond screentime
Health professionals and scholars alike consider evening smartphone use an important public health challenge.Existing research on the effects of smartphone usage on sleep has three limitations, namely reliance on self-report measures of smartphone use and/or sleep, limited attention to within-person effects, and a focus on general screentime rather than specific app usage.The current study addressed these limitations by conducting a seven-day stu…
On the stabilization of media effects after repeated exposure
Public concerns about media effects are oftentimes fueled by anecdotal evidence and popular press reports pointing towards strong media effects. Interestingly, however, these public concerns are in contrast to findings from empirical studies that point towards minimal media effects. In the past decades, scholars have proposed several explanations for these minimal effects. This article adds to this, by proposing that one reason is that media effe…
Adolescents’ Digital Nightlife
The smartphone occupies a substantial part of adolescents’ daily life, from the moment they wake up to, for some, well beyond their bedtime. The current study compared the impact of adolescents’ daytime, pre-bedtime, and post-bedtime smartphone use on their sleep quality. In addition, it explored the differential effects of lean-back and lean-forward smartphone apps. We collected data from 155 adolescents across 21 days using smartphone tracking …
Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement
Given the vast amount of permanently available entertainment content and the high pleasure that viewers derive from it, the question of when and why users disengage from a media entertainment viewing session becomes more pressing. We argue in this paper that communication theories lack a conceptualization of the disengagement part of the communication process. The study presents a novel dynamic view on media use, and argues that specific processe…
Psychology (22 obras) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (18 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Media Influence and Health (10 obras) · Cognitive psychology (9 obras) · Child Development and Digital Technology (8 obras) · Multimedia (8 obras) · Social Media and Politics (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras)