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Christian Montag

Christian Montag

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Psychology
China
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
87
Citations
23907
World Ranking
1104
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in China Leader Award

Overview

Christian Montag is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on various subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance," 2020, published in Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • "On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse From Empirical Findings," 2021, published in Frontiers in Public Health
  • "Fear of missing out (FOMO): overview, theoretical underpinnings, and literature review on relations with severity of negative affectivity and problematic technology use," 2020, published in Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and social media's impact on daily-life and productivity at work: Do WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat Use Disorders mediate that association?" 2020, published in Addictive Behaviors
  • "Assessing the Attitude Towards Artificial Intelligence: Introduction of a Short Measure in German, Chinese, and English Language," 2020, published in KI - Künstliche Intelligenz

The frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Jon D. Elhai
  • Cornelia Sindermann
  • Benjamin Becker
  • Dmitri Rozgonjuk
  • Haibo Yang

Christian Montag has published extensively in several academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Addictive Behaviors

Their contributions also include books published by a range of publishers:

  • Two books titled "Animal Emotions," published in 2020 by Punctum Books
  • "Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing," published in 2022 by Springer International Publishing
  • "Online Psychology Beyond Addiction and Gaming: A Global Look at Mental Health and Internet-Related Technologies," published in 2022 by Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance.

    Orsolya Király;Marc N. Potenza;Dan J. Stein;Daniel L. King

  • Smartphone addiction, daily interruptions and self-reported productivity.

    Éilish Duke;Christian Montag

  • Smartphone usage in the 21st century: Who is active on WhatsApp?

    Christian Montag;Konrad Błaszkiewicz;Rayna Sariyska;Bernd Lachmann

  • On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse From Empirical Findings

    Christian Montag;Haibo Yang;Jon D. Elhai

  • Reduced grid-cell–like representations in adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease

    Lukas Kunz;Tobias Navarro Schröder;Hweeling Lee;Christian Montag

  • How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with "smartphone addiction"?

    Christian Montag;Christian Montag;Elisa Wegmann;Rayna Sariyska;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Is it meaningful to distinguish between generalized and specific Internet addiction? Evidence from a cross-cultural study from Germany, Sweden, Taiwan and China

    Christian Montag;Katharina Bey;Peng Sha;Mei Li

  • Addictive Features of Social Media/Messenger Platforms and Freemium Games against the Background of Psychological and Economic Theories

    Christian Montag;Bernd Lachmann;Marc Herrlich;Katharina Zweig

  • Memory Consolidation by Replay of Stimulus-Specific Neural Activity

    Lorena Deuker;Jan Olligs;Juergen Fell;Thorsten A Kranz

  • Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and social media’s impact on daily-life and productivity at work: Do WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat Use Disorders mediate that association?

    Dmitri Rozgonjuk;Dmitri Rozgonjuk;Cornelia Sindermann;Jon D. Elhai;Christian Montag

  • Fear of missing out (FOMO): overview, theoretical underpinnings, and literature review on relations with severity of negative affectivity and problematic technology use

    Jon D. Elhai;Haibo Yang;Christian Montag

  • Measurement and Conceptualization of Gaming Disorder According to the World Health Organization Framework: the Development of the Gaming Disorder Test

    Halley M. Pontes;Bruno Schivinski;Cornelia Sindermann;Mei Li

  • The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research.

    Christian Montag;Benjamin Becker;Chunmei Gan

  • Assessing the Attitude Towards Artificial Intelligence: Introduction of a Short Measure in German, Chinese, and English Language

    Cornelia Sindermann;Peng Sha;Min Zhou;Jennifer Wernicke

  • Different aspects of theory of mind in paranoid schizophrenia: Evidence from a video-based assessment

    Christiane Montag;Isabel Dziobek;Inga S. Richter;Kathrin Neuhaus

  • Theory of mind impairments in euthymic bipolar patients

    Christiane Montag;André Ehrlich;Kathrin Neuhaus;Isabel Dziobek

  • How age and gender affect smartphone usage

    Ionut Andone;Konrad Błaszkiewicz;Mark Eibes;Boris Trendafilov

  • Psycho-Informatics: Big Data shaping modern psychometrics

    Alexander Markowetz;Konrad Błaszkiewicz;Christian Montag;Christina Switala

  • Primary Emotional Systems and Personality: An Evolutionary Perspective.

    Christian Montag;Christian Montag;Jaak Panksepp

  • Similar Personality Patterns Are Associated with Empathy in Four Different Countries

    Martin C. Melchers;Mei Li;Brian W. Haas;Martin Reuter

  • The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism impacts parahippocampal and amygdala volume in healthy humans: incremental support for a genetic risk factor for depression.

    C Montag;B Weber;K Fliessbach;C Elger

  • Linking Internet Communication and Smartphone Use Disorder by taking a closer look at the Facebook and WhatsApp applications.

    Peng Sha;Rayna Sariyska;René Riedl;René Riedl;Bernd Lachmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Sebastian Markett
Sebastian Markett Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker University of Hong Kong
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Dmitri Rozgonjuk
Dmitri Rozgonjuk University of Tartu
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University
Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University
Halley M. Pontes
Halley M. Pontes Birkbeck, University of London

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