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Overview

Sonja Utz is affiliated with the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and psychology, with a strong focus on communication and the interface between technology and social behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Subfields that feature prominently in their work are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Communication
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Literature and Literary Theory

The primary research topics covered by Sonja Utz include:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Media Influence and Health
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Frequent coauthors that appear in Utz's collaborations are:

  • Lara N. Wolfers
  • Franziska Gaiser
  • Christine Anderl
  • Stefanie Helene Klein
  • Niels J. Van Doesum

Sonja Utz has published multiple papers, notably in journals focused on communication, psychology, and technology. Recent representative publications include:

  • "An Agenda for Open Science in Communication," 2020, Journal of Communication
  • "Social media use, stress, and coping," 2022, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Do smartphones and social network sites become more important when experiencing stress? Results from longitudinal data," 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • "How-to videos on YouTube: the role of the instructor," 2020, Information Communication & Society

Their work is published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Media Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cyberpsychology Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace
  • Publizistik

Best Publications

  • Is the medium the message? Perceptions of and reactions to crisis communication via twitter, blogs and traditional media

    Friederike Schultz;Sonja Utz;Anja Göritz

  • Crisis communication online: How medium, crisis type and emotions affected public reactions in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

    Sonja Utz;Friederike Schultz;Sandra Glocka

  • Social information processing in MUDs: The development of friendships in virtual worlds.

    Sonja Utz

  • The Role of Social Network Sites in Romantic Relationships: Effects on Jealousy and Relationship Happiness

    Sonja Utz;Camiel J. Beukeboom

  • Consumers rule: How consumer reviews influence perceived trustworthiness of online stores

    Sonja Utz;Peter Kerkhof;Joost van den Bos

  • Snapchat Elicits More Jealousy than Facebook: A Comparison of Snapchat and Facebook Use

    Sonja Utz;Nicole L. Muscanell;Cameran Khalid

  • The function of self-disclosure on social network sites

    Sonja Utz

  • The emotional responses of browsing Facebook

    Ruoyun Lin;Sonja Utz

  • The (Potential) Benefits of Campaigning via Social Network Sites

    Sonja Utz

  • It is all about being popular: the effects of need for popularity on social network site use.

    Sonja Utz;Martin Tanis;Ivar E. Vermeulen

  • The privacy paradox on social network sites revisited: The role of individual characteristics and group norms

    Sonja Utz;Nicole C. Krämer

  • Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of person you are: How one's profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites

    Sonja Utz

  • Strategic framing in the BP crisis: A semantic network analysis of associative frames

    Friederike Schultz;Jan Kleinnijenhuis;Dirk Oegema;Sonja Utz

  • Mediated interpersonal communication

    Elly A. Konijn;Sonja Utz;Martin Tanis;Susan B. Barnes

  • The good, the bad and the ugly thing to do when sharing information: Revealing, concealing and lying depend on social motivation, distribution and importance of information

    Wolfgang Steinel;Sonja Utz;Lukas Koning

  • An Agenda for Open Science in Communication

    Tobias Dienlin;Niklas Johannes;Niklas Johannes;Nicholas David Bowman;Philipp K. Masur

  • The Relationship Between Use of Social Network Sites, Online Social Support, and Well-Being: Results From a Six-Wave Longitudinal Study.

    Sonja Utz;Johannes Breuer

  • Self-construal and cooperation: Is the interdependent self more cooperative than the independent self?

    Sonja Utz

  • Is LinkedIn making you more successful? The informational benefits derived from public social media

    Sonja Utz

  • Social media use, stress, and coping

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  • On-line Reputation Systems: The Effects of Feedback Comments and Reactions on Building and Rebuilding Trust in On-line Auctions

    Sonja Utz;Uwe Matzat;Chris Snijders

Frequent Co-Authors

Anja S. Göritz
Anja S. Göritz University of Freiburg
Nicole C. Krämer
Nicole C. Krämer University of Duisburg-Essen
Paul A. M. Van Lange
Paul A. M. Van Lange Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kai Sassenberg
Kai Sassenberg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Marcello Gallucci
Marcello Gallucci University of Milano-Bicocca
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi University of Amsterdam
Joachim Kimmerle
Joachim Kimmerle University of Tübingen
Michel Walrave
Michel Walrave University of Antwerp
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Henny M. W. Bos
Henny M. W. Bos University of Amsterdam

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