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Special Issue Current Opinion in Psychology edited by team AWeSome

Special Issue Current Opinion in Psychology edited by team AWeSome

The June edition of Current Opinion in Psychology (Volume 45) is a special issue on Social Media and Well-Being. It was edited by Patti Valkenburg, Ine Beyens, Adrian Meier and Mariek Vanden Abeele and contains 26 excellent reviews by over 50 authors.

The aim of this special issue is to address the question on how research on social media and well-being should advance and to inform researchers about the rapidly expanding volume of studies in this field. You can read the editorial  article here.

Recent Publications & Project Updates

June 15, 2026

Project AWeSoMe wins Open Science Award ⭐

We are very proud that Project AWeSoMe has been awarded an Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA) Award in the category “Transparency / Metascience / Preregistration / Reproducibility” 🏆 Since the founding of AWeSoMe in 2018, Open Science principles…
May 19, 2026

Project AWeSoMe article among most-read in Child Development🥇

Project AWeSoMe is proud to share that the article Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning by Loes Pouwels, Ine Beyens, Loes Keijsers, and Patti Valkenburg has ranked within the top 10% most-viewed…
March 02, 2026

Publication Alert: How Does Social Media Make Adolescents Lonely?

How does using social media relate to feeling lonely, and why do some adolescents seem to be more affected than others? A new study by Rebecca Godard, Amber van der Wal, and Ine Beyens sheds light on these questions using intensive, real‑time data from…
February 09, 2026

Team AWeSoMe at ETMAAL 2026!

On the 5th and 6th February 2026, Team AWeSoMe attended the ETMAAL 2026 conference, hosted by the university of Wageningen. Etmaal is the annual meeting where communication researchers from Dutch and Flemish universities come together to share their…

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by a NWO Spinoza Prize awarded to Patti Valkenburg

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