Publications

Dienlin, T. (2025). Effects of COVID-19 related social media use on well-being. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-91385-2. [preprint, data, code, material]

Klinger, D., Plener, P. L., Marboe, G., Karwautz, A., Kothgassner, O. D., & Dienlin, T. (2024). Exploring the relationship between media use and depressive symptoms among gender diverse youth: Findings of the Mental Health Days Study. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 18(1), 104. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00797-x [paper]

Dienlin, T., & Metzger, M. (2024). Who needs privacy? Exploring the relations between need for privacy and personality. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 120402. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.120402 [paper, website, data, materials]

Perreault, G., & Dienlin, T. (2024). Normalizing open science practice: Understandings, evaluations, and implementations of open science practices in the field of Communication. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241262346 [preprint, data, material]

Dienlin, T., & Breuer, J. (2023). Privacy is dead, long live privacy! Two diverging perspectives on current issues related to privacy. Journal of Media Psychology, 35(3), 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000357[preprint]

Toth, R., & Dienlin, T. (2023). Bittersweet symphony: Nostalgia and melancholia in music reception. Music & Science, 6, 20592043231155640. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231155640 [preprint, data, code, material]

Erdmann, E., Dienlin, T. (2022). Binge-watching, self-determination, and well-being. A partially successful direct replication and extension of Granow et al. (2018). Journal of Media Psychology. doi: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000334 [preprint, data, code]

Johannes, N., Dienlin, T., Bakhshi, H., & Przybylski, A. K. (2022). No effect of different types of media on well-being. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 61. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-03218-7 [paper, code, data]

Kezer, M., Dienlin, T., & Baruh, L. (2022). Getting the privacy calculus right: Analyzing the relations between privacy concerns, expected benefits, and self-disclosure using Response Surface Analysis. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2022-4-1 [paper, code, data]

Dienlin, T., Johannes, N., Bowman, N. D., Masur, P. K., Engesser, S., Kümpel, A. S., Lukito, J., Bier, L. M., Zhang, R., Johnson, B. K., Huskey, R., Schneider, F. M., Breuer, J., Parry, D. A., Vermeulen, I., Fisher, J. T., Banks, J., Weber, R., Ellis, D. A., … de Vreese, C. (2021). An agenda for open science in Communication. Journal of Communication, 71(1). doi:10.1093/joc/jqz052 [paper]

Dienlin, T., Masur, P. K., & Trepte, S. (2021). A longitudinal analysis of the privacy paradox. New Media & Society.doi:10.1177/14614448211016316 [paper, data, code, website]

Dienlin, T., & Sun, Y. (2021). Does the privacy paradox exist? Comment on Yu et al.’s (2020) meta-analysis. Meta Psychology, 5. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2020.2711 [paper, code]

Bräunlich, K., Dienlin, T., Eichenhofer, J., Helm, P., Trepte, S., Grimm, R., Seubert, S., & Gusy, C. (2020). Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model. New Media and Society. doi:10.1177/1461444820905045 [preprint]

Dienlin, T., & Johannes, N. (2020). The impact of digital technology use on adolescent well-being. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(2), 135–142. doi:10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/tdienlin. Invited submission. [paper]

Johannes, N., Meier, A., Reinecke, L., Ehlert, S., Setiawan, D. N., Walasek, N., Dienlin, T., Buijzen, M., & Veling, H. (2020). The relationship between online vigilance and affective well-being in everyday life: Combining smartphone logging with experience sampling. Media Psychology. doi:10.1080/15213269.2020.1768122 [paper,preprint, data, material, code]

Trepte, S., Scharkow, M., & Dienlin, T. (2020). The privacy calculus contextualized: The influence of affordances. Computers in Human Behavior, 104, 106115. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.08.022 [data, material]

Orben, A., Dienlin, T., & Przybylski, A. K. (2019). Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi:10.1073/pnas.1902058116 [paper, data, material, code]

Bol, N., Dienlin, T., Kruikemeier, S., Sax, M., Boerman, S. C., Strycharz, J., . . . Vreese, C. H. de. (2018). Understanding the effects of personalization as a privacy calculus: Analyzing self-disclosure across health, news, and commerce contexts. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 23, 370–388. doi:10.1093/jcmc/zmy020 [paper, data, material, code]

Dienlin, T., Masur, P. K., & Trepte, S. (2017). Displacement or reinforcement? The reciprocity of FtF, IM, and SNS communication and their effects on loneliness and life satisfaction. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication,22, 71–87. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12183 [paper, data, material]

Bartsch, M., & Dienlin, T. (2016). Control your Facebook: An analysis of online privacy literacy. Computers in Human Behavior, 56, 147-154. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.022 [preprint, data, code]

Dienlin, T., & Metzger, M. J. (2016). An extended privacy calculus model for SNSs-Analyzing self-disclosure and self-withdrawal in a U.S. representative sample. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 21, 368–383. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12163 [paper, data, material]

Trepte, S., Schmitt, J. B., & Dienlin, T. (2016). Good news! How reading valenced news articles influences positive distinctiveness and learning from news. Journal of Media Psychology, 1-13. doi:10.1027/1864-1105/a000182

Dienlin, T., & Trepte, S. (2015). Is the privacy paradox a relic of the past? An in-depth analysis of privacy attitudes and privacy behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 285–297. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2049 [paper]

Trepte, S., Dienlin, T., & Reinecke, L. (2014). The influence of social support received in online and offline contexts on satisfaction with social support and satisfaction with life: A longitudinal study. Media Psychology, 18, 74–105.doi:10.1080/15213269.2013.838904 [paper]